Ruben Safir schreef op 2019-02-07 19:26: > On Thu, Feb 07, 2019 at 05:10:04PM +0100, Tijl via dovecot wrote: Hi Timo, > > Thank you very much for replying with an instant solution! > > Suggestion for future release: a setting in the configuration to > enable/disable the automatic instance_update_now action and/or set the > timeout by the user. > > In the meanwhile I can use the recompiled version with this code change. > Problem solved for me. > > Regards, > Tijl > > Timo Sirainen schreef op 2019-02-07 15:59: > > On 2 Feb 2019, at 6.44, Tijl <dove...@odie.be> wrote: > > How can dovecot be run without writing to /var/lib/dovecot/instances > everyday? Is there a configuration setting for this?
Postfix can do this without that added infrastructure. Could you explain how this can be accomplished with Postfix? At the moment I don't use Postfix (I use Dovecot only to store mail archives) but I'm OK to install it, just for this. Thank you for your advice already! > You'd need to patch src/master/main.c instance_update_now() to remove: > > to_instance = timeout_add((3600 * 12 + i_rand_limit(60 * 30)) * 1000, > instance_update_now, list); > > I'm not quite sure why I wrote such code to update it continuously. -- So many immigrant groups have swept through our town that Brooklyn, like Atlantis, reaches mythological proportions in the mind of the world - RI Safir 1998 http://www.mrbrklyn.com DRM is THEFT - We are the STAKEHOLDERS - RI Safir 2002 http://www.nylxs.com - Leadership Development in Free Software http://www2.mrbrklyn.com/resources - Unpublished Archive http://www.coinhangout.com - coins! http://www.brooklyn-living.com Being so tracked is for FARM ANIMALS and extermination camps, but incompatible with living as a free human being. -RI Safir 2013