Scrolling thru the archives gives me a hint that there might be troubles with AFS together with dovecot and maildir especially the LDA Is this still an issue or should I prepare for spending time to solve it? If someone successfully got it to work in a small or large scale environment I would be happy to know about it. /Per-Erik Persson
On February 2, 2010 9:06:45 PM +0100 Per-Erik Persson <pere-erik.persson at it.su.se> wrote:> Scrolling thru the archives gives me a hint that there might be troubles > with AFS together with dovecot and maildir especially the LDA > Is this still an issue or should I prepare for spending time to solve it? > If someone successfully got it to work in a small or large scale > environment I would be happy to know about it.Any specific reason to put the maildir on AFS? Just curious.
Frank Cusack skrev 2010-02-02 21:37:> On February 2, 2010 9:06:45 PM +0100 Per-Erik Persson > <pere-erik.persson at it.su.se> wrote: >> Scrolling thru the archives gives me a hint that there might be troubles >> with AFS together with dovecot and maildir especially the LDA >> Is this still an issue or should I prepare for spending time to solve >> it? >> If someone successfully got it to work in a small or large scale >> environment I would be happy to know about it. > > Any specific reason to put the maildir on AFS? Just curious.AFS is the storage backend used today with maildir and a couple of 10.000 users :-) That is quite a good reason. The IMAP server part of dovecot seems to work but I want sieve. The maildrop boxes are anicent with some patches to make it work with AFS
On 2.2.2010, at 22.06, Per-Erik Persson wrote:> Scrolling thru the archives gives me a hint that there might be troubles with AFS together with dovecot and maildir especially the LDA > Is this still an issue or should I prepare for spending time to solve it? > If someone successfully got it to work in a small or large scale environment I would be happy to know about it.Problems are probably similar to NFS. The only sure way to avoid issues is to make sure that only a single server accesses user's mails at the same time. LDA from a different server is safe only if it doesn't update Dovecot's index files. There was a recent thread about how to do this with subject "quick question".