[Dovecot] CONTROLDIR directive

[Timo Sirainen]

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.

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