[Dovecot] Setting location for indexes

[Rich West]

dovecot.7.signal11 at spamgourmet.com wrote:

>We have NFS-mounted user directories which cause significant problems with
>stale file handles:
>
>dovecot: IMAP(uid): fstat() failed with file /home/uid/mail/.imap/INBOX/dovecot.index.log: Stale NFS file handle
>
>(a) why can't it just close the file and re-open ?
>
The Stale NFS file handle error is a fatal error on the system side.  
Closing and re-opening isn't a guaranteed solution.

Actually, the real question, in my opinion, would be what is causing the 
system to get a stale NFS file handle?  IF you are going to store and 
access mail from NFS filesystems, the filesystem needs to be extremely 
stable and accessible..

-Rich