On 30.7.2012, at 13.36, mailing list subscriber wrote: >>> userdb { >>> driver = passwd >>> } >> >> Looks like you're using system users. Each mail then needs to be written >> using different permissions, so hard linking can't work. >> > > I am afraid this is incorrect:
The code that determines if Dovecot even attempts to use hard links is in: http://hg.dovecot.org/dovecot-2.1/file/f74557336910/src/lib-storage/mail-copy.c#l101 So you could make it work if you chmod 0770 all of your maildir directories and chgrp them to the same group.