[Dovecot] 1.0-test21

[Timo Sirainen]

On 22.6.2004, at 13:40, Farkas Levente wrote:

>> But to be interoperable with other maildir clients, Dovecot can't 
>> know if someone else didn't do other changes within the same second. 
>> So it has to resync everything.
>
> but if this is the real reason there can be a configuration option 
> where the sysadm can state "we don't use other maildir clients". since 
> most of the case that's the situation. and may be some resync can 
> happend when something goes wrong.

Yes, maybe.. Another problem is if indexes can't be used/updated for 
some reason (eg. user is out of quota) then the other Dovecots are 
"other maildir clients".

>>> as I wrote about half a year the best solution would be a local 
>>> delivery agent which can update the index files and spread the load 
>>> to the arrival time instead of the mail read time.
>> That's also getting near. mbox already updates the mail index when 
>> saving mails to it, I'll soon fix it to update cache file as well. 
>> I'll do the same for maildir soon too.
>
> there will be a delivery agent which I can set for postfix and 
> procmail to use when store mails?

Yep.
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