Roger Hale wrote:
I'm running dovecot-1.0.10 on a Solaris 10 server with home dirs automounted over NFS. I have set the mail_location configuration option so that nothing should be written to a user's home dir over NFS but, as far as I can tell, dovecot still by default tries to chdir to a user's home dir when reading mail, although this is not required. This creates additional unnecessary load on a heavily-loaded fileserver and generally slows everything down and creates an unnecessary dependency.
Is there a way to prevent dovecot from causing the home dirs to be mounted?
You can override the home dir returned by your userdb with a variable-expanded, "static" value by adding home to args[1]. You need to be careful and make sure that Dovecot doesn't use anything in the users' home dirs. You may need to set mail_location and/or mail and create a virtual home-dir tree local to the Dovecot server.
Posting dovecot -n output would help.