[Dovecot] v2.2 status update: IMAP NOTIFY extension and more

[Ed W]

On 16/08/2012 12:24, Charles Marcus wrote:
> On 2012-08-16 7:12 AM, Ed W <lists at wildgooses.com> wrote:
>> My opinion is that this is very easily to implement in at least Postfix
>> and probably other servers, hence I would suggest this is a function for
>> the MTA, not for the Dovecot relay?
>
> Well, true enough for simpler installations, but integrating something 
> like this in dovecot that can be applied across large dovecot director 
> based farms might be a good thing.
>
> Actually, maybe (and maybe not, I honestly haven't thought this 
> through at all, and this might be a really dumb idea), instead of 
> specific support for this one feature, I wonder if it would make more 
> sense to actually build in support for a policy server (ie, 
> amavisd-new) like postfix has...
>

I'm really missing the key point here?

The proposal was (I think?): Have Dovecot accept emails and feed them to 
the MTA (eg Postfix)

This means you have access to all the MTA features (hence why I was 
pointing out these features exist today).  Further, by centralising this 
function you don't need to duplicate the functionality depending on 
whether an email was sent via Dovecot or SMTP.

So I don't see that policy servers are necessary in Dovecot for this 
particular requirement - I think most ideas we can come up with would 
benefit from delegating policy to the MTA so that it's centralised?

I might be missing the point, so see above for my understanding of the 
problem?

Ed W