Ben,
Yeah, I was using it for a few hundred mailboxes, so perhaps the volume was what made it crash. But I eally wanted it to work, because it was fast and simple to configure. As an example: to solve your problem, you can customize where everything is located. Modify the dovecot.conf file with a line like this:
default_mail_env = mbox:~/mail/:INBOX=/var/spool/mail/%u:INDEX=/%h/
This line will make Dovecot look for the mailmoxes under ~/mail (which I prefer because I also use PINE on this system, and this makes PINE act the same as IMAP), and the Inbox is in the usual mail spools directory at /var/spool/mail. But the index files get put under the home directory, where they're kept in a .imap directory. Separates them from the mailboxes. Since you only have about a dozen mailboxes it shouldn't be too hard to convert them.
-Ed
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Ben Steeves wrote:
On Thu, 2004-05-06 at 10:39, Ed Holden wrote:
Point is, Dovecot crashed on me a few times. I'm sure it will develop into a great mail daemon (the philosopy behind it s design is spot on), and perhaps the problem with it was Red Hat's specific build and not the software itself (a lot of people seem to love it). But I ended up switching back to using Qpopper, though I'm sure that ipop3d would have been fine.
Just to provide another perspective, I've been using Dovecot for about six months and it hasn't crashed once. Of course, I'm only using it in a 'toy' capacity -- about a dozen mailboxes or so. I'm quite impressed with it; my only complaint is that Squirrelmail can see the index files; if it were up to me, the IMAP server would hide them.
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