[Dovecot] Performance-Tuning

[Jahnke-Zumbusch, Dirk]

Hi there,

>I never tried it, but it should be possible to provide the mail_location
>from the user repsoitory (LDAP, SQL, whatever)

Actually this works :-)  Our userdb looks similar to:

account1:xyz:000:000::/account1s/home/dir::userdb_mail=maildir:/account1s/home/dir/Maildir
account2:xyz:000:000::/account2s/home/dir::userdb_mail=mdbox:/ account2s/home/dir

http://wiki2.dovecot.org/UserDatabase/ExtraFields

Concerning Maildir backups: what about a backup-to-disc-to-tape scheme
using snapshots for the "to-disc" part and something like perpetual 
incrementals afterwards for the "top-tape" (secondary store) ?

Regards
Dirk
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>So you can keep your global config, and use a script to convert one
>mailbox after another, and add a mail_location extra userdb field in the
>user repository to overwrite the global setting on a per-user-basis.
>
>Regards,
>Oliver