> > Adrian Barker wrote: > >> We are considering switching from the Washington UW IMAP server to > >> Dovecot for performance reasons, but we make use of the feature in the > >> UW server that automatically moves new email from the mail spool to the > >> IMAP INBOX. Has anyone implemented this in Dovecot, or considered > >> implementing it ? We have a large number of users, so cannot easily > >> change the way that we deliver email. > > > > Andy Shellam wrote > > I'm thinking this is more of an issue with your MTA, as usually that's > > responsible for delivering into the mailbox's Inbox. > > > > You might want to look at Dovecot's LDA, "deliver" > > (http://wiki.dovecot.org/LDA). > > Deliver takes an e-mail piped from your MTA, with appropriate options on > > the command-line, and delivers it into the relevant mailbox correctly. > > Adrian Barker wrote: > Thanks for replying. We cannot easily change the way we deliver email, > as we have over 30,000 users, who use a mixture of imap, pop and Unix > email clients, so we have to continue to deliver email to a central mail > spool. The MTA that we run is Exim, which has the flexibility to deliver > into the 'Inbox', but we need to remain compatible with non-IMAP mailers.
This is not clear at all, why does the number of users effect the delivery method? What mailbox format are you using? -- Kenny Dail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
