Topic: Changing Dovecot Index Location

[lancej]

Good day,

I'm trying to find out how to change the location of user's dovecots indexes.

The reason is that I have user directories hosted on separate file server and mounted with NFS. 

Due to an issue with the file server, occasionally I get timeout errors while dovecot waits for a lock:

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Error: Timeout while waiting for lock for transaction log file /home/e-smith/files/users/user1/Maildir/dovecot.index.log

I would like to have the index files stored locally on the server. 

How do achieve this?

Thanks

[Daniel B.]

You need to create a custom template to override /etc/e-smith/templates/etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf/25mail and specify the INDEX location in the mail_location directive. See http://wiki.dovecot.org/MailLocation

[lancej]

Thanks for the reply,

I mistakenly posted this question to SME 9.x Contribs;

The server is actually running SME 8.0. 

I'll re-ask the question in the correct forum.

[Stefano]

no need for it, I'll move this 3ad to SME 8 section and delete the other one