Re: [Dovecot] [dovecot] INDEX variable and mbox_snarf plugin

[Jonathan Siegle]

On Jan 15, 2009, at 6:47 PM, Timo Sirainen wrote:

Sorry for the late reply.

On Thu, 2008-11-06 at 13:39 -0500, Jonathan Siegle wrote:

Is there a way to tell the dovecot mbox_snarf plugin to use an alternate location for the index/cache files? It doesn't seem to want to use the INDEX variable. I'm guessing the answer is no because of all the ties in

lib-storage/index/mbox/*c to the directory where the file(that is the
inbox) lives.

the user to own. The user only owns the mbox file.

The filesystem where I keep the inbox file doesn't have a directory for

It's not possible to specify the index location because of how the
plugin has been implemented. The best you could easily do by modifying
sources is to disable indexes for INBOX. Other than that it would
require larger changes, perhaps a full rewrite.

That's what I gleaned from the source. For now, I will go forward with adding another 300k files to the filesystem..

Thanks,
Jonathan

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