Roger Hale wrote:
I'm running dovecot-1.0.10 on a Solaris 10 server with home dirs
automounted over NFS. I have set the mail_location configuration
option so that nothing should be written to a user's home dir over
NFS but, as far as I can tell, dovecot still by default tries to
chdir to a user's home dir when reading mail, although this is not
required. This creates additional unnecessary load on a
heavily-loaded fileserver and generally slows everything down and
creates an unnecessary dependency.
Is there a way to prevent dovecot from causing the home dirs to be
mounted?
You can override the home dir returned by your userdb with a
variable-expanded, "static" value by adding home to args[1]. You need
to be careful and make sure that Dovecot doesn't use anything in the
users' home dirs. You may need to set mail_location and/or mail and
create a virtual home-dir tree local to the Dovecot server.
Posting `dovecot -n` output would help.
1: http://wiki.dovecot.org/UserDatabase
