I've tried using IMAP with mail_location pointed at the snapshot, but,
though I can get a listing of emails in the mailbox, the fetch fails when
dovecot can't write-lock dovecot.index.log.
I've thought about doing this someday (adding snapshots to a user's
namespace) but never got around to doing it. Snapshots get rotated
(e.g. hourly.1 -> hourly.2 -> etc.) so every hour, so any indices
produced gets invalidated. You would need to generate MEMORY indices
to create it on the fly. Something like
namespace snapshots {
location = ...:INDEX==MEMORY
...
}
I'm not sure how dovecot would react when NetApp pulls the rug out
from under one of the hourly snapshots and replace it with the next
hour's version.
Joseph Tam <[email protected]>
