[Dovecot] separate partition for index/uidlist

[Timo Sirainen]

On Sun, 2007-03-11 at 20:07 +0100, Daniel wrote:
> 
> > No. Each mailbox has separate index files, so the index files are
> > opened when the mailbox is opened. So there's no way to have
> > index/control outside chroot.
> So is it correct to state that chroot and Quota/FS does not work 
> simultaneously? The maildirs/mboxes will always be under the chroot 
> directory, so it is impossible to set the directory containing the 
> index/uidlist files in a place without quota, if it has to be under
> the 
> chroot. 

Normally yes. Although it could be possible to do something tricky, such
as temporarily make a mount --bind (assuming you're using Linux) inside
the user's home directory for the index/control files. I'm not sure if
that's a good idea though. :)

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