Re: Locks directory change

On 07.01.2018 20:05, Mark Moseley wrote:

On Thu, Oct 26, 2017 at 7:30 AM, Aki Tuomi mailto:aki.tuomi@dovecot.fi> wrote:

> On October 26, 2017 at 4:30 PM Federico Bartolucci
<federico@aruba.it <mailto:federico@aruba.it>> wrote:
>
>
> Hello,
>
> it's the first time for me writing to the list, I'm trying to
change the
> location into which the Dovecot's locks are done reserving a special
> temporary directory on an other partition, then adding to the
> dovecont.conf the line:
>
> mail_location = maildir:~/Maildir:VOLATILEDIR=/tmp_lock/%2.256Nu/%u
>
> so that through the VOLATILEDIR directive the locks should be
written in
> this path.
> We observe though that the locks for many users are still done
in the
> real maildir (NFS mounted filesystem) as if in some situations this
> instruction is not effective. Anybody knows if are there other
things to
> change or to do or what could be the reason? (for instance to
login in a
> specific way or doing a particular operation).
>
> Regards,
> Federico

Hi, VOLATILEDIR currently only affects vsize.lock and
autoexpunge.lock.

Aki

Are there plans to expand that in 2.3? Without knowing the ramifications, it'd be nice to have lastlogin use it, at least with director enabled. 

Yes, we have plans to expand this.

Aki