dovecot 1.0.rc10

[James Berry]

Hi Keith,

On Oct 24, 2006, at 12:41 PM, Keith Shaw wrote:

> hi james,
>
> first and foremost thank you for your hard work to bring dovecot to  
> darwinports (i mean macports ;-)  i read your thread on the dovecot  
> mailing list while trying to figure out my problems with dovecot on  
> Mac OS X.  i hope your patch to avoid hard links makes it into the  
> 1.0 final release.

Unfortunately, Timo has decided not to put the patch into that  
release.  Hopefully the patch will make it into a subsequent release.  
The version of dovecot in macports does apply the patch, however.

>
> i do have one question i hope you can answer.  is there any thing  
> that needs to be done to a system that was running an _unpatched_  
> version of dovecot.  from what i've read, it seems like my system  
> should still have hard links all over.  and it would seem i should  
> clean these up.  to summarize:

To remove the hardlinks, you need to delete any and all copies of the  
files that are referenced by the hardlinks, then reboot the server. I  
believe this is what I did:

	- Shut down dovecot
	- Tar up my mail directories
	- Delete the mail directories
	- Untar the directories
	- Reboot the machine
	- Start dovecot

My dovecot system has been much happier since I did that and applied  
the patches.

James.


>
> 	Where are the hard links and may I safely remove them?
>
> thanks for your help!
>
> cheers, keith.