Locks directory change

[Aki Tuomi]

On 07.01.2018 20:05, Mark Moseley wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 26, 2017 at 7:30 AM, Aki Tuomi <aki.tuomi at dovecot.fi
> <mailto:aki.tuomi at dovecot.fi>> wrote:
>
>
>     > On October 26, 2017 at 4:30 PM Federico Bartolucci
>     <federico at aruba.it <mailto: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. 
>

Yes, we have plans to expand this.

Aki
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