VOLATILEDIR not really used?

Tom Sommer mail at tomsommer.dk
Fri Oct 5 12:50:44 EEST 2018


On 2018-10-05 11:35, Timo Sirainen wrote:
> 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.

Hrmm okay, fair enough. Seems like a small task though.

Might try and look into it myself.


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