[Dovecot] Mountpoints with auto mounter
Hi,
I'm running dovecot on a OmniOS installation and I'm wondering what I can do about all those mount point warnings in my logfile. The problem occurs because of the running auto-mounter which manages my mail directories. Isn't it possible for dovecot just try to access the directories before logging an error message. Shall I remove the corresponding mount points from the list of tracked mount points with the doveadm mount-command? The documentation does say nothing about situation with an active auto mounter.
Thanks for any suggestions.
Cheers, Steffen
Am 16.09.2013 11:41, schrieb Steffen Kram:
I'm running dovecot on a OmniOS installation and I'm wondering what I can do about all those mount point warnings in my logfile. The problem occurs because of the running auto-mounter which manages my mail directories. Isn't it possible for dovecot just try to access the directories before logging an error message. Shall I remove the corresponding mount points from the list of tracked mount points with the doveadm mount-command? The documentation does say nothing about situation with an active auto mounter.
i generally do not understand why dovecot insists in warning about whatever mountpoints - what is the point that dovecot needs to care about anything ever mounted on a machine as long it is not referred in any configuration
i generally do not understand why dovecot insists in warning about whatever mountpoints - what is the point that dovecot needs to care about anything ever mounted on a machine as long it is not referred in any configuration
I absolutely agree. In my opinion it is not the problem of dovecot if my mount points exists or not. If the only purpose is to track if a user already existed or if its a new user for whom directories and mailboxes have to be created. Or are there other use cases I just read http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Mountpoints.
As pointed out in http://www.dovecot.org/list/dovecot/2012-January/063419.html there might be problems for dbox mailboxes, if the indexes are stored on a different mount. What's the point in doing that? It would be great if there was a way to just disable the mount point tracking if I don't store indexes on different mounts and don't use the dsync replication feature, even if it's just a compile time option.
Cheers, Steffen
Am 16.09.2013 11:59, schrieb Steffen Kram:
i generally do not understand why dovecot insists in warning about whatever mountpoints - what is the point that dovecot needs to care about anything ever mounted on a machine as long it is not referred in any configuration
I absolutely agree. In my opinion it is not the problem of dovecot if my mount points exists or not. If the only purpose is to track if a user already existed or if its a new user for whom directories and mailboxes have to be created. Or are there other use cases I just read http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Mountpoints.
As pointed out in http://www.dovecot.org/list/dovecot/2012-January/063419.html there might be problems for dbox mailboxes, if the indexes are stored on a different mount. What's the point in doing that? It would be great if there was a way to just disable the mount point tracking if I don't store indexes on different mounts and don't use the dsync replication feature, even if it's just a compile time option.
and in case you are running dovecot only as a proxy it needs not to care about *any* mountpoint at all - consider the mess if every software out there would act this way.....
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Reindl Harald
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Steffen Kram
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Timo Sirainen