VOLATILEDIR not really used?

Tom Sommer mail at tomsommer.dk
Fri Oct 5 16:42:56 EEST 2018


On 2018-10-05 11:50, Tom Sommer wrote:
> 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.
> 
> Might try and look into it myself.

Something like this? See attached.
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