[Dovecot] Problems with the pop3 part of dovecot

[Roberto Tagliaferri - Tosnet srl]

Timo Sirainen ha scritto:
> On Sun, 2008-10-26 at 10:30 -0700, Brandon Lamb wrote:
>   
>> On Sun, Oct 26, 2008 at 10:25 AM, Timo Sirainen <tss at iki.fi> wrote:
>>     
>>> On Sun, 2008-10-26 at 10:21 -0700, Brandon Lamb wrote:
>>>       
>>>> I did modify exim to add the W=size but it also required use_crlf and
>>>> that seemed to break something else. I also found a couple posts
>>>> saying to use INDEX=MEMORY for the pop3 part, but I didnt understand
>>>> if that actually DISABLED pop3 using indexes or if it really stored
>>>> something in memory, and if so what happens on a reboot, so I am
>>>> confused on if i should tell the pop3 part to use the same
>>>> /dovecot-index that I specified for imap.
>>>>         
>>> v1.1 handles index files with POP3 a lot better than v1.0. I don't think
>>> it's a good idea to disable them.
>>>
>>> This reminds me, I should look into updating the
>>> courier-dovecot-migrate.pl to copy the virtual sizes and POP3 UIDLs from
>>> Courier's files to dovecot-uidlist now that v1.1 supports them both.
>>>       
>> So using 1.1.5 would you recommend that I have INDEX=MEMORY or
>> INDEX=/dovecot-index (which is nfs stored dir) for pop3?
>>     
>
> INDEX=/dovecot-index
>
>   
What happened if an external program (webmail..) change the inbox directly?
Is there a problem with pop3 server or dovecot recreate the index?

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