[Dovecot] SPAM: Re: little submissions feature request

Timo Sirainen tss at iki.fi
Wed Nov 28 15:23:39 EET 2007


On Wed, 2007-11-28 at 11:18 +0100, Netskin | Corin Langosch wrote:
> Now I have to use a cifs mounted maildir directory and found it to be 
> quite slow,
> though I already tuned it a lot. The only way to get it fast was to put 
> INDEX and
> CONTROL files on the local disc and so outside of the maildirs. 
> Performance is
> great but the problem is with submissions to maildirs.
> 
> When a CONTROL directive is given, dovecot writes the submissions file to
> this directory too. Now as I have two dovecots in a loadbalancer my 
> users have
> to do their modifications to their subscriptions always twice (for each 
> server
> in the loadbalancer). 

Control directory must be shared. Otherwise you'll end up breaking IMAP
clients' local caches and causing all kinds of problems, because message
UIDs keep changing.

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