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diff --git a/doc/wiki/Mountpoints.txt b/doc/wiki/Mountpoints.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..1f920af --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/wiki/Mountpoints.txt @@ -0,0 +1,55 @@ +Mountpoints +=========== + +---%<------------------------------------------------------------------------- +master: Warning: /mnt/foo is no longer mounted. See +http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Mountpoints +---%<------------------------------------------------------------------------- + +Dovecot wants to keep track of mountpoints that might contain emails. If such a +mountpoint is suddenly not mounted, it's handled as an error condition rather +than as "this is a new user". This prevents other confusion that follows such a +situation. + +The list of mount points is maintained in the file /var/run/dovecot/mounts. + +Removing mountpoints +-------------------- + +If you permanently removed a mountpoint, you can tell Dovecot to forget about +it with: + +---%<------------------------------------------------------------------------- +doveadm mount remove /mnt/foo +---%<------------------------------------------------------------------------- + +Ignoring mountpoints +-------------------- + +Dovecot already internally filters out many mountpoints and filesystems that +are pretty much guaranteed not to contain any emails, but of course it can't +know about everything. This is especially problematic with filesystems that are +sometimes mounted and sometimes not. You can permanently tell Dovecot to ignore +a mountpoint with: + +---%<------------------------------------------------------------------------- +doveadm mount add /mnt/foo ignore +---%<------------------------------------------------------------------------- + +or ignore all mountpoints under '/mnt': + +---%<------------------------------------------------------------------------- +doveadm mount add '/mnt/*' ignore +---%<------------------------------------------------------------------------- + +Adding mountpoints +------------------ + +Mountpoints are added automatically when Dovecot starts up. If you mount a new +filesystem with mails while Dovecot is running you can also add it manually: + +---%<------------------------------------------------------------------------- +doveadm mount add /mnt/foo +---%<------------------------------------------------------------------------- + +(This file was created from the wiki on 2019-06-19 12:42) |