dovecot - Nov 2008 - INDEX variable and mbox_snarf plugin

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 filesystem where I keep the inbox file doesn't have a directory for 
the user to own. The user only owns the mbox file.

Thanks,
Jonathan

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Since I didn't get any bytes for this question, I'll pose it a different
way.

 From http://wiki.dovecot.org/MailLocation#indexfiles :


=Index files

Index files are by default stored under the same directory as mails. 
With maildir they are stored in the actual maildirs, with mbox they are 
stored under .imap/ directory. You may want to change the index file 
location if you're using NFS or if you're setting up shared mailboxes.

You can change the index file location by adding :INDEX=<path> to 
mail_location. For example:


mail_location = maildir:~/Maildir:INDEX=/var/indexes/%u
The index directories are created automatically, but note that it 
requires that Dovecot has actually access to create the directories. 
Either make sure that the index root directory (/var/indexes in the 
above example) is writable to the logged in user, or create the user's 
directory with proper permissions before the user logs in.

If you really want to, you can also disable the index files completely 
by appending :INDEX=MEMORY.
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How are people setting the INDEX for mbox_snarf if you are using NFS?

I'm guessing I will just be rewriting lib-storage/index/mbox/ to have a 
choice of directories or creating 2 new files for mbox_snarf that look 
alot like the mbox driver index code. Was there a reason to not have a 
variable for index files for mbox_snarf?


Thanks,
Jonathan
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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 filesystem where I keep the inbox file doesn't have a directory for
> the user to own. The user only owns the mbox file.
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.

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