VOLATILEDIR not really used?

Timo Sirainen tss at iki.fi
Fri Oct 5 12:35:33 EEST 2018


On 4 Oct 2018, at 17.13, Tom Sommer <mail at tomsommer.dk> wrote:
> 
> 
> On 2018-10-04 15:55, Timo Sirainen wrote:
>> On 4 Oct 2018, at 14.39, Tom Sommer <mail at tomsommer.dk> wrote:
> 
>>> Is this correct, and if so are there any plans to move dotlocks etc. to this directory?
>> What dotlocks? I guess mbox and Maildir have some locks that could be
>> moved there, but a better performance optimization for those
>> installations would be to switch to sdbox/mdbox. Other than that, I
>> don't remember there being anything important that could be moved
>> there.
> 
> Maildir locks yes, switching format is not a procedure I feel comfortable with :)
> 
> Would it be possible to move the maildir/mbox locks to VOLATILEDIR?

Sure it would be possible, but it's such a low priority for us that I doubt we'll be implementing it.



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