Re: [Dovecot] Best way to change index location on mdbox

2012-05-19 Thread Timo Sirainen
On 20.5.2012, at 1.23, Patrick Westenberg wrote: > Timo Sirainen schrieb: > >> No. Director is simply about making sure that more than one server won't >> access the same user's mailbox simultaneously. I'm not recommending >> per-backend index files to any kind of setups. Perhaps the NFS wiki p

Re: [Dovecot] Best way to change index location on mdbox

2012-05-19 Thread Patrick Westenberg
Timo Sirainen schrieb: No. Director is simply about making sure that more than one server won't access the same user's mailbox simultaneously. I'm not recommending per-backend index files to any kind of setups. Perhaps the NFS wiki page should be changed also. So using a director it should b

Re: [Dovecot] Best way to change index location on mdbox

2012-05-19 Thread Timo Sirainen
On 20.5.2012, at 1.03, Patrick Westenberg wrote: > Timo Sirainen schrieb: > >> But you really don't want any of this with mdbox, not deleting index >> files or having per-backend index files. > > What is the director/backend-stuff useful for if per-backend index files > is not recommended? As fa

Re: [Dovecot] Best way to change index location on mdbox

2012-05-19 Thread Patrick Westenberg
Timo Sirainen schrieb: But you really don't want any of this with mdbox, not deleting index files or having per-backend index files. What is the director/backend-stuff useful for if per-backend index files is not recommended? As far as I understood, that's what it's all about. Patrick

Re: [Dovecot] Best way to change index location on mdbox

2012-05-19 Thread Timo Sirainen
On Sat, 2012-05-19 at 20:43 +0200, Patrick Westenberg wrote: > Timo Sirainen schrieb: > > > You must not lose indexes with mdbox or you'll lose message flags and > > mails may also end up going to wrong mailboxes. > > Yes, have been there but this behaviour is confusing me as I find > conflictin

Re: [Dovecot] Best way to change index location on mdbox

2012-05-19 Thread Patrick Westenberg
Timo Sirainen schrieb: You must not lose indexes with mdbox or you'll lose message flags and mails may also end up going to wrong mailboxes. Yes, have been there but this behaviour is confusing me as I find conflicting information in the wiki: http://wiki2.dovecot.org/IndexFiles "If index f

Re: [Dovecot] Best way to change index location on mdbox

2012-05-19 Thread Timo Sirainen
On Fri, 2012-05-18 at 23:44 +0200, Patrick Westenberg wrote: > right now my index directory is part of the users home directory: > mail_home = /var/mail/%d/%n > mail_location = mdbox:~/mdbox > > I want the indexes to be stored in a different location: > mail_home = /var/mail/%d/%n > mail_location

[Dovecot] Best way to change index location on mdbox

2012-05-18 Thread Patrick Westenberg
Hi, right now my index directory is part of the users home directory: mail_home = /var/mail/%d/%n mail_location = mdbox:~/mdbox I want the indexes to be stored in a different location: mail_home = /var/mail/%d/%n mail_location = mdbox:~/mdbox:INDEX=/var/indexes/%d/%n If I just switch this setti