VOLATILEDIR not really used?

[Timo Sirainen]

On 5 Oct 2018, at 16.42, Tom Sommer <mail at tomsommer.dk <mailto:mail at tomsommer.dk>> wrote:
> 
> 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 <mailto: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 <mailto: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.<volatile-dotlock.patch>

Looks like it works. But could you:

1) Add it to github as merge request

2) MAILBOX_LIST_PATH_TYPE_VOLATILEDIR might be useful, but it's kind of a separate change of its own. To simplify, in Maildir code you could have box->list->set->volatile_dir != NULL ? box->list->set->volatile_dir : control_dir. That way it's falling back to control_dir like the previous code when VOLATILEDIR wasn't set.

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