[Dovecot] Turn of mount point adding?

Nick Edwards nick.z.edwards at gmail.com
Mon Dec 16 09:18:01 EET 2013


On 12/14/13, Scott Galambos <scottg at particlesoftware.com> wrote:
> There needs to be a way at compile time or in the config to turn the
> whole thing off.  The best I could come up with is:
>
> doveadm mount add '/custompath/*' ignore
> doveadm mount add '/custompath*' ignore
>
> I had to do both to get it to finally stop adding them.
>

Exactly, I have no idea what Timo was thinking when he added this, it
should be defined by config, and nothing more. adding ignore is a lazy
and rediculous workaround.

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>
> On 12/14/2013 5:52 AM, Reindl Harald wrote:
>> Am 14.12.2013 11:37, schrieb Scott Galambos:
>> i wonder if Timo sooner or later accepts that this is a *major bug*
>> no userland-software on this planet needs to track mount-points
>> at least not as default, at least not this way
>>
>> the last time i borught this up the excuse was "dovecot
>> can not know if the missing mount point contains mail-data"
>>
>> uhm - it knows by config and not by presence of a OS mount-point
>


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