[Dovecot] namespace from snapshots

Timo Sirainen tss at iki.fi
Sun Aug 19 18:39:04 EEST 2012


On 16.8.2012, at 14.58, Lazy wrote:

> 2012/5/19 Timo Sirainen <tss at iki.fi>:
>> On Wed, 2012-05-16 at 12:39 +0200, Lazy wrote:
>>> May 16 12:11:36 thebe2 dovecot: imap(lazy): Error:
>>> open(/snapshot/h1/vmail/la/lazy/Maildir/.SPAM/dovecot-uidlist.lock)
>>> failed: Read-only file system
>> 
>> Does the attached patch help?
>> 
>>> maybe it will be easier to move all dovecot metadata to separate (non
>>> snapshot) location ?
>> 
>> It could also be a bit problematic. At least message keywords (=custom
>> flags) wouldn't work because the dovecot-keywords file exists only in
>> the snapshot dir.
> 
> Moving metadata helped, but now archived inbox is unsubscribed. Is
> there a way to make all folders in an namespace subscribed by default
> ?

Nope. I could try to get the snapshots fixed at some point when I have more time, but I'm not going to add a feature to subscribe everything by default. People might try to start using it.


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