[Dovecot] After upgrading to 1.2 - absolute path questions

[Richard Stockton]

At 01:10 PM 12/9/2009, Timo Sirainen wrote:
>On Wed, 2009-12-09 at 13:05 -0800, Richard Stockton wrote:
> > I just tried: concat('mail/', home) as userdb_home
>
>Was it really 'mail/', not '/mail/'? I forgot those / characters above..

Yes, I figured the "maildir:~/" was putting in the first "/".

> > If I try: concat('maildir:/mail/', home) as userdb_mail
> > (leaving the old config mail_location = maildir:/mail/:INDEX=MEMORY)
> >
> > I get the same squirrelmail error and this in dovecot-info.log
> > Dec  9 12:49:13 webmail02 dovecot: Fatal: Mailbox indexes in
> > /mail/r/l/rls/Maildir/ are in NFS mount. You must set
> > mail_nfs_index=yes (and mail_nfs_storage=yes) to avoid index
> > corruptions. If you're sure this check was wrong, set nfs_check=no.
> >
> > which I assume is due to there being no "INDEX=MEMORY" anywhere.
>
>Right, you should have added that to the concat() also. The point of
>userdb_mail is that it completely overrides mail_location setting's
>value.

Hey!  I think I got it!
concat('maildir:/mail/', home, ':INDEX=MEMORY') as userdb_mail,
seems to do the trick, and should be compatible with 1.2.x, right?

Next step, update to 1.2...  Anything else I should be watching out for?

Thanks for sticking with me through all this, I really appreciate it.
  - Richard