[Dovecot] dovecot and cloudfile systems

[Timo Sirainen]

On 24.3.2012, at 22.34, jackie sparks wrote:

> 
> I'm trying to store mailboxes in a cloudfile system and I am running into alot of problems using courier, between time skew, file locking and cache creation problems. I was wondering if dovecot has any problems using maildirs across a limited fuse file system. 
> I cant lock files, 
> 
> This is accessed using the fuse library.
> I thought taking out the standard checking for return values would be a work around because everything imap daemon is doing can be done from a shell by hand except filelocking and setting times on files.
> I am doing this on Rack Spaces cloud files. This is something that not many if any are doing. 

http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Director will probably make it work okay. Otherwise if even Courier doesn't work, Dovecot won't work either.