Michal Szymanski
2009-Jun-15 18:40 UTC
[Dovecot] mixing dovecot and non-dovecot access to mail
Hello, I have recently installed Mailscanner/postfix for the mail server and dovecot for (mainly remote) access to email (via T'bird etc. and/or Webmail). Most users still use text mail clients (mutt, pine, some still old elm) while in the office. These clients access mail (both incoming at /var/mail/ and users' private folders in ~/Mail) directly. I wonder whether this mixing of dovecot and non-dovecot access can make any problems, provide, of course, that the users are not using both ways at the same time. AFAIK dovecot makes some indexing. Will it not be confused if the folder is changed and de-sync-ed with the index? regards, Michal. -- Michal Szymanski (msz at astrouw dot edu dot pl) Warsaw University Observatory, Warszawa, POLAND -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.
Timo Sirainen
2009-Jun-15 23:29 UTC
[Dovecot] mixing dovecot and non-dovecot access to mail
On Mon, 2009-06-15 at 20:40 +0200, Michal Szymanski wrote:> I wonder whether this mixing of dovecot and non-dovecot access can make > any problems, provide, of course, that the users are not using both ways > at the same time. AFAIK dovecot makes some indexing. Will it not be > confused if the folder is changed and de-sync-ed with the index?To make sure that Dovecot notices flag changes done by other clients, you need to set mbox_dirty_syncs=no. To make sure that other clients notice flag changes done by Dovecot set mbox_lazy_writes=no. Both of these decrease performance though. Also I think you should try to make sure that everything works correctly even when using both Dovecot and non-Dovecot at the same time. Mainly this means that you should check that their locking mechanisms are the same. http://wiki.dovecot.org/MboxLocking -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 197 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part URL: <http://dovecot.org/pipermail/dovecot/attachments/20090615/99f93438/attachment-0002.bin>