[Dovecot] Test Environment Question

[Timo Sirainen]

On Tue, 2008-01-08 at 09:22 -0500, Stewart Dean wrote:
> I have my master IMAP server running DC V1.0.10.  The homedir and 
> INBOXdir are physically resident there and NFS exported (no caching) to 
> 3 other machines.  I have installed V1.1beta13 on one of them (which 
> thus accesses the homedir/INBOXdir remotely) and plan to have a limited 
> community test-drive it there.  Are there any hazards or drawbacks in 
> doing this?  While the homedirs and INBOXdirs are thus shared, I have it 
> so that each machine has its own local index directory and /var/run 
> dir.  Comments or dire warnings?

If indexes are separate, there should be nothing to worry about.
Although with the beta13 machine you could enable NFS attribute cache
and set mail_nfs_storage=yes. If there are no bugs it should improve
performance.

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