<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">On 2 Feb 2019, at 6.44, Tijl <<a href="mailto:dovecot@odie.be" class="">dovecot@odie.be</a>> wrote:<br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><span style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px;" class="">How can dovecot be run without writing to /var/lib/dovecot/instances everyday? Is there a configuration setting for this?</span></blockquote><br class=""></div><div>You'd need to patch src/master/main.c instance_update_now() to remove:</div><div><br class=""></div><div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>to_instance = timeout_add((3600 * 12 + i_rand_limit(60 * 30)) * 1000,</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span> instance_update_now, list);</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I'm not quite sure why I wrote such code to update it continuously.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div></div></body></html>