Re: Retrieving mail from read-only mdbox

I've tried using IMAP with mail_location pointed at the snapshot, but, though I can get a listing of emails in the mailbox, the fetch fails when dovecot can't write-lock dovecot.index.log.

I've thought about doing this someday (adding snapshots to a user's namespace) but never got around to doing it. Snapshots get rotated (e.g. hourly.1 -> hourly.2 -> etc.) so every hour, so any indices produced gets invalidated. You would need to generate MEMORY indices to create it on the fly. Something like

namespace snapshots {
	location = ...:INDEX==MEMORY
	...
}

I'm not sure how dovecot would react when NetApp pulls the rug out from under one of the hourly snapshots and replace it with the next hour's version.

Joseph Tam jtam.home@gmail.com