Selection of most fitting partition/backend upon account creation

[Bron Gondwana]

On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 05:39:32PM +0100, Julien Coloos wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 2:19 PM, Bron Gondwana <brong at fastmail.fm> wrote:
> > Yes, it sounds excellent.  We use git for version control now - so you
> > could easily fork a copy and put it somewhere (github for example) with
> > your patch, and just point us to the branch :)  Or put the diff in
> > bugzilla - whatever suits.
> 
> We are not using git yet, but it seems interesting enough to start
> doing so from now on. We will be looking into it, so it shall take
> some more time before we can get back to you with a patch.

No worries.  This looks like something that would be good to get into 2.5
when we release it.  I'm thinking the timeframe is 1-2 months, depending
what else is ready :)
 
> > One question: do you attempt to keep mailboxes for the same user
> > together on the same partition/same server?  While same partition
> > isn't really necessary (just somewhat desirable) - same server
> > is pretty useful.  Otherwise things like seen files become a mess
> > (less so in 2.4.x, but still)
> 
> Indeed, keeping the user mailboxes on the same partition/server seems
> more logical.
> Only new user account is concerned by this behaviour. When a new user
> subfolder is created, its parent server/partition is still retrieved
> and used unless explicitely given as parameter upon creation.

Fantastic - it looks like you've given it a lot of thought!  This is
exactly the sort of contribution we love to get.

Thanks,

Bron.