On Mon, 6 Nov 2017 08:37:11 +0200 Sami Ketola <sami.ket...@dovecot.fi> wrote:
> > On 5 Nov 2017, at 12.55, Stephan von Krawczynski <skraw...@ithnet.com> > > wrote: Sorry to say this setup works flawlessly for years. The only > > addition we will make now is to do the delivery with dovecot-lda. > > Everything else (including multiple dovecot pop/imap servers) will stay as > > is. Hopefully dovecot-lda does not fiddle around with the indexes too > > much, as we then would have to delete this part of the code out. It is not > > needed as we found out during the last 10 years of delivering mails into > > the maildirs by atomic rename action while dovecot is presenting them over > > imap. > > > Feel free to do anything you like. I'm just going to mention to people later > reading these from the achives not to take this kind of strange hack as an > example of recommended dovecot clustering. Instead consider it as an > opposite of any best practices cluster setup. > > Sami Maybe they are interested that it runs like charm ;-) Of course it is overly complex to let dovecot-lda look up the mail_location since we already know that when starting it, but at least it shows a nice output in the logs. Still we are not content with it touching/locking dovecot.index.log. If someone pointed at one location in the code where this could be disabled we would implement a new param for switching that off. -- Regards, Stephan