On Wed, Jun 13, 2007 at 08:43:26PM -0700, Jason Fesler wrote: > >We are running Dovecot 1.0.0 using mbox format (currently in the midst > >of conversion from UW IMAP). We discovered today that the Dovecot LDA > >is accessing the user's INBOX at delivery time! Not only do our users > > If you're willing to pass on delivery-time indexing, and you assign one > unix uid per account, then you can instead consider using other delivery > agents - and just use dovecot to serve.
True -- however, two points: 1) we probably won't stay with the 'mbox' format forever, and 2) we would like to use the Sieve plugin, which I believe requires use of Dovecot LDA. > I use procmail on my system; and on some mailboxes, I use deliver; some I > deliver direct via procmail to reduce deliver times to > accomodate the flow rates that hit those specific mailboxes (alerts in a > very large production environment that are still smtp based). We also have a very large production environment. Thanks for the ideas. -- Steven F. Siirila Office: Lind Hall, Room 130B Internet Services E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Office of Information Technology Voice: (612) 626-0244 University of Minnesota Fax: (612) 626-7593
