dovecot - Jul 2005 - removing (hopefully) unneeded access to $HOME

Hi,

Thanks for dovecot.  It's the best IMAP server ever.
Okay, here's my problem:

I use mbox INBOXes from /var/spool/mail/%u, and the INDEX lies in
/var/spool/mail/dovecot/%d/%u.  Users' other folders are found in /%h/mail.

Now, I notice that when a user is accessing her INBOX, the imap process
cwd's to
the user's home, which I'd like to prevent as much as possible.  


E.g., when the user's client is only watching INBOX, I still see:

[root at tock:~]$ lsof | grep home_kt
imap       6422      kt  cwd       DIR       0,17    12288    7602177 /home/kt
(other.host:/home/kt)

Is there a way I can tweak the dovecot settings so that this cwd isn't
holding
open the NFS mount?

Many thanks,
Abe Smith


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# Abraham David Smith,  <adsmith at math.duke.edu> #
# http://fds.duke.edu/db/aas/math/grad/adsmith  #
# Mathematics Graduate Student, Duke University #

To answer my own question, I created an alternative passwd file,
/etc/passwd.dovecot, which declared a junk directory as $HOME. Then, I set the
default_mail_env to /home/%u instead of $h, so it calls the *real*
home-directory directly when needed.
 


On Sun, Jul 24, 2005 at 08:09:52PM -0400, Abraham D Smith
wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Thanks for dovecot.  It's the best IMAP server ever.
> Okay, here's my problem:
> 
> I use mbox INBOXes from /var/spool/mail/%u, and the INDEX lies in
> /var/spool/mail/dovecot/%d/%u.  Users' other folders are found in
/%h/mail.
> 
> Now, I notice that when a user is accessing her INBOX, the imap process
cwd's to
> the user's home, which I'd like to prevent as much as possible.  
> 
> 
> E.g., when the user's client is only watching INBOX, I still see:
> 
> [root at tock:~]$ lsof | grep home_kt
> imap       6422      kt  cwd       DIR       0,17    12288    7602177
/home/kt (other.host:/home/kt)
> 
> Is there a way I can tweak the dovecot settings so that this cwd isn't
holding
> open the NFS mount?
> 
> Many thanks,
> Abe Smith
> 
> 
> -- 
> # Abraham David Smith,  <adsmith at math.duke.edu> #
> # http://fds.duke.edu/db/aas/math/grad/adsmith  #
> # Mathematics Graduate Student, Duke University #
> 
> 
-- 
# Abraham David Smith,  <adsmith at math.duke.edu> #
# http://fds.duke.edu/db/aas/math/grad/adsmith  #
# Mathematics Graduate Student, Duke University #