[Dovecot] Dovecot and /dev/shm

Gregory Finch gfinch at ldmltd.ca
Sat May 22 01:31:39 EEST 2010


maybe try using tmpfs instead.

-Greg

On 2010-05-20 9:20 PM, DJ GRP wrote:
> Hi,
> I have tried to use /dev/shm for Dovecot's index files:
> 
>> mail_location = mbox:~/mail:INBOX=/var/mail/%u:INDEX=/dev/shm/%u
> 
> But it does not seem to like it.
> 
> May 21 07:13:59 IMAP(user): Error: stat(/dev/shm/user/.imap/INBOX)
> failed: Permission denied (euid=1234(user) egid=500(group) missing +x
> perm: /dev/shm)
> 
> It seems to me that /dev/shm permissions are OK. Any suggestions on how
> to achieve this?

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