Dear Dovecot users,

I'd like to relocate indexes from NFS to local storage.

I plan to replace...

default_mail_env = maildir:~/.maildir

with

mail_location = maildir:~/.maildir:INDEX=/usr/local/var/dovecot/index/%u

However, to minimise disruption, by avoiding dovecot rebuilding indexes for many user's large and numerous folders, I'd like to copy the existing indexes to the new location.

Here is a list of _my_ indexes (in and under ~/.maildir)

./.Drafts/dovecot-uidlist ./.Drafts/dovecot.index ./.Drafts/dovecot.index.cache ./.Drafts/dovecot.index.log ./.OpenLDAP/dovecot-keywords ./.OpenLDAP/dovecot-uidlist ./.OpenLDAP/dovecot.index ./.OpenLDAP/dovecot.index.cache ./.OpenLDAP/dovecot.index.log ./.OpenLDAP/dovecot.index.log.2 ./.Sent/dovecot-keywords ./.Sent/dovecot-uidlist ./.Sent/dovecot.index ./.Sent/dovecot.index.cache ./.Sent/dovecot.index.log ./.Trash/dovecot-keywords ./.Trash/dovecot-uidlist ./.Trash/dovecot.index ./.Trash/dovecot.index.cache ./.Trash/dovecot.index.log ./.mailscanner/dovecot-keywords ./.mailscanner/dovecot-uidlist ./.mailscanner/dovecot.index ./.mailscanner/dovecot.index.cache ./.mailscanner/dovecot.index.log ./.mailscanner/dovecot.index.log.2 ./.nagios/dovecot-keywords ./.nagios/dovecot-uidlist ./.nagios/dovecot.index ./.nagios/dovecot.index.cache ./.nagios/dovecot.index.log ./.samba/dovecot-keywords ./.samba/dovecot-uidlist ./.samba/dovecot.index ./.samba/dovecot.index.cache ./.samba/dovecot.index.log ./.samba/dovecot.index.log.2 ./.sw-announce/dovecot.index ./.sw-announce/dovecot.index.cache ./.sw-announce/dovecot.index.log ./dovecot-keywords ./dovecot-uidlist ./dovecot.index ./dovecot.index.cache ./dovecot.index.log ./dovecot.index.log.2

Would I be correct in copying these to /usr/local/var/dovecot/index/rob/ (_my_ new index loc) whilst preserving the structure of the folders etc.

Thanks

Rob

-- Rob