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Dovecot 2.1.7 While migrating mail from one server (Maildir) to another (mdbox), a config issue caused my dsync to fail on a few accounts. Those accounts received mail on the new server over night and it autocreated new inboxes with new GUIDs. Now dsync wants nothing to do with mirroring between the two (diff GUIDs). Is there a way to fix this? dsync(jeff at foo.bar): Error: Mailbox INBOX

...#39;t create mailbox root dir /mnt/ssd/indexes/6/a/ sales at foo.com/mailboxes: Mountpoint /mnt/ssd isn't mounted. Mount it or remove it with doveadm mount remove Would doing a `doveadm mount remove /mnt/ssd` fix my issue, or cause some type of catastrophe? Thanks, Jeff Geiger jeff.geiger at firespring.com

We are currently experiencing performance issue with our Dovecot system which we believe is caused by excessive writes to the dovecot files. The confusing thing is that we are seeing more writes than reads on our Dovecot volume when you would assume that most of the IO should be reads from customers checking their mail. We're seeing reads vs. writes similar to the following: # iostat -d 5 -x