On Tue, 2010-10-26 at 15:46 +0200, Ralf Hildebrandt wrote: > on the morning I was running "dovecot-lda" for local delivery, but > then switched to the old 1.2.x deliver for performance reasons.
If the slowness is caused by config parsing, that's actually easy to avoid: service config { unix_listener config { mode = 0666 } } (Of course assuming there isn't anything secret in the config.) Now dovecot-lda and others will read the config from the socket rather than executing doveconf.