On Tue, 2005-03-15 at 09:11 +0000, Chris Wakelin wrote:
Is it possible to have folders on read-only partitions in Dovecot 1.0-stable?
Only if you set the permissions so that Dovecot really doesn't have write access there. Other permission checks will come with ACL code some day..
Unfortunately, Dovecot always seems to want to write to the directory, even when indexes are stored elsewhere (as recommended with NFS anyway, I think) using INDEX=whatever in the location line.
With maildir you should also give CONTROL=elsewhere so it won't try to create dovecot-uidlist files.
I'm not exactly sure if read-only maildirs work at the moment though. Read-only mboxes work, more or less.. Hmm. That reminds me, lets see if upgrading dovecot.org's dovecot version helps with its read-only mbox problems..