[Dovecot] deliver & procmail

[Timo Sirainen]

On Feb 28, 2008, at 6:44 AM, Jeff Grossman wrote:

> Timo Sirainen wrote:
>> On Feb 27, 2008, at 4:49 PM, Carsten Henkel wrote:
>>
>>> DELIVER=/usr/local/libexec/dovecot/deliver
>>> :0 w
>>> | $DELIVER Maildir
>>
>> There shouldn't be Maildir in there. deliver reads dovecot.conf to  
>> figure out where your mails are located.
>>
> Sorry for jumping in this thread.  I am currently using Dovecot as  
> my IMAP and POP server.  I am using Sendmail as my MTA and Procmail  
> as my LDA.  Would I gain anything by using Deliver through Procmail  
> like the above example is?  My server is just a small home server  
> with very little e-mail traffic.

If you haven' t noticed any performance slowdowns when accessing new  
mails for the first time, then probably not.

With mboxes it could help. With Maildirs probably not. With v1.1 it  
helps more than with v1.0.

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