On Tue, 2005-09-27 at 10:59 +0100, Chris Wakelin wrote:
Now we aren't running UW-IMAP at all, how safe is mbox_very_dirty_syncs assuming the only other process writing to mailboxes is our MTA (exim) which simply appends messages to the end?
It should have been safe even with UW-IMAP and other software changing the mbox. Only problem with it is that it might not have catched external flag updates as early as possible.
mbox_very_dirty_syncs just makes Dovecot opportunistic about thinking the mails are where Dovecot last saw them, but if at any point Dovecot notices that they're not where they should be, it just re-reads the entire mbox.
Is it safer still using Dovecot 1.0-alphas and the LDA?
If you're using now 1.0-stable, I'd think 1.0.alpha3 is better/safer in general :)
Does it matter if there are concurrent connections to the mailbox?
Nope.