On Fri, 2005-06-10 at 11:17 +0900, Alan Premselaar wrote:
I have another question related to this. I currently have all the control files being written to the users' Maildir directories. I'd like to change this so that the control files are written to a filesystem without quota control on it. if I just set the CONTROL setting in dovecot.conf will that cause possible problems (i.e. people receiving already read mail as if it was unread, etc)?
It will cause UIDs to be recreated. This may or may not be a problem, see http://wiki.dovecot.org/Migration for the causes. Flags will stay though.
do I also need to copy the control files from the Maildir directories to the newly appointed location? If I do, I should shut down all dovecot processes before doing so, yes?
Would be better to copy them. Shutting down Dovecot .. well, probably a good idea so you won't lose any changes that Dovecot did.