[Dovecot] Mailbox usage

[Timo Sirainen]

On Wed, 2005-06-08 at 22:12 +0400, Andrew Velikoredchanin wrote:
> > Dovecot needs a directory where it can store indexes and other mailboxes
> > with IMAP. See bottom of http://wiki.dovecot.org/MailLocation
> 
> OK! I undestend it. But now I have other problem.
> 
> My mailboxes placed on NFS dir (not root). After some time of work 
> dovecot, this directory stay as unavalible. For example, /mnt/auto/home 
> is NFS directory, /mnt/auto/home/nouser/spool/mail - mailbox directory. 
> After some time I get not avalible /mnt/auto/home/nouser/spool/mail 
> directory, but other top NFS directories (/mnt/auto/home/nouser/spool, 
> /mnt/auto/home/nouser, ...) is good.
> 
> I think, this problem in lock mailboxes. I try fcntl and dotfile lock 
> methods, but this problem present both. :(
> 
> dovecot-0.99.11-2.EL4.1 from RHEL4.

I don't really understand what you mean by "not available", but in any
case with 0.99.x you must not store indexes in NFS as that won't work.
You'd have to disable them completely by appending :INDEX=MEMORY to
default_mail_env setting.

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