dovecot - Mar 2012 - doveadm purge on clusterfs

Since doveadm service proxying apparently doesn't work with dovecot
v2.0, we need to find a way to safely run doveadm purge on the host the
user is logged into.

Would it be OK to run purge in the pop/imap postlogin scripts? We
already do a conditional:

test /var/log/activemailaccounts/imap/$USER -ot
/var/log/activemailaccounts/today
then
	touch /var/log/activemailaccounts/imap/$USER
fi

so adding a:

	doveadm purge -u $USER

in this section would make it run once every day the users that log in.
Does that sound like an OK solution?


   -jf

On 27.3.2012, at 12.47, Jan-Frode Myklebust wrote:
> Would it be OK to run purge in the pop/imap postlogin scripts? We
> already do a conditional:
> 
> test /var/log/activemailaccounts/imap/$USER -ot
/var/log/activemailaccounts/today
> then
> 	touch /var/log/activemailaccounts/imap/$USER
> fi
> 
> so adding a:
> 
> 	doveadm purge -u $USER
> 
> in this section would make it run once every day the users that log in.
> Does that sound like an OK solution?
Yeah, should work fine. Or you should make it run in background so user's
login won't slow down because of the purging. I'm not sure if simply
adding & at the end works (or if the process dies after login is finished,
or what happens if it runs over 30 secs which is when normally post-login script
is killed by SIGALRM).