[Dovecot] nfs director

[William Blunn]

On 10/09/2010 07:50, Edward avanti wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 7:26 PM, Timo Sirainen<tss at iki.fi>  wrote:
>
>    
>> On 3.9.2010, at 7.00, Noel Butler wrote:
>>
>>      
>>> I do take exception to be told this issue can be fixed, but NFS users
>>> are not worth it, which is essentially what he told us, I dare say if
>>> this list was flooded by dovecot NFS users asking he'd quickly change
>>> his mind, but as everyone here knows, there is only a few hundred
>>>        
>> I never said I don't care about NFS users or think there aren't enough of
>> them. I guess I could have been a bit clearer:
>>
>> I don't consider the number of users who want to use Dovecot LDA without
>> indexes to be worth the trouble to add extra complexity to maildir code.
>>
>>      
> Why to Maildir code,  is not easier to not call that part of code by command line -switch to deliver simple method and would this no be beneficial to all NFS user, not just the one who ask you.
>    

Writing messages to Maildir(++) (without indexes) is so straightforward 
that systems tend to have support for that built-in.

Exim, Postfix, and Procmail have support for delivery to Maildir built-in.

If you just want a program which does simple deliveries to Maildir then 
you can use Procmail.

Bill