Locks directory change

[Mark Moseley]

On Thu, Oct 26, 2017 at 7:30 AM, Aki Tuomi <aki.tuomi at dovecot.fi> wrote:

>
> > On October 26, 2017 at 4:30 PM Federico Bartolucci <federico at aruba.it>
> wrote:
> >
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > it's the first time for me writing to the list, I'm trying to change the
> > location into which the Dovecot's locks are done reserving a special
> > temporary directory on an other partition, then adding to the
> > dovecont.conf the line:
> >
> > mail_location = maildir:~/Maildir:VOLATILEDIR=/tmp_lock/%2.256Nu/%u
> >
> > so that through the VOLATILEDIR directive the locks should be written in
> > this path.
> > We observe though that the locks for many users are still done in the
> > real maildir (NFS mounted filesystem) as if in some situations this
> > instruction is not effective. Anybody knows if are there other things to
> > change or to do or what could be the reason? (for instance to login in a
> > specific way or doing a particular operation).
> >
> > Regards,
> > Federico
>
> Hi, VOLATILEDIR currently only affects vsize.lock and autoexpunge.lock.
>
> Aki
>

Are there plans to expand that in 2.3? Without knowing the ramifications,
it'd be nice to have lastlogin use it, at least with director enabled.
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