Timo Sirainen wrote:

On Tue, 2006-08-22 at 18:31 -0500, B H wrote:

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I looked through the wiki and the archives, but couldn't find an answer to this question.

We use a webmail product that uses three dummy mbox dotfiles for storing configuration and temporary info. I'm trying to find a way to have dovecot's indexing ignore all dotfiles, and so far have had no luck (other than, of course, coding it in myself).

Does anyone know if this is possible? Thanks.

Not really, but what's the harm in doing that except wasting maybe 10kB of disk space?

First, thanks for replying!

One of these dummy mboxes is used to autosave in-progress drafts. It changes frequently, and Dovecot often tries to stat the index file for it when no such index file exists. This throws an error to the console, and happens frequently enough to render the console pretty much useless (real errors get lost) under a full user load. I was hoping to just exempt dotfiles from indexing altogether, so as not to have to add workarounds to the app. The operation needs to be low-overhead and isn't considered critical, just "a useful addition", so it wasn't designed to do the same kind of gentle handling and error-checking you'd do with a real mailbox.

-Brian