[Dovecot] Best way from Mbox to Maildir using 2.17?

[Noel Butler]

On 05/11/2013 22:04, Daniele Nicolodi wrote:
> On 05/11/2013 12:24, Noel Butler wrote:
>> On 05/11/2013 20:11, Daniele Nicolodi wrote:
>>> On 05/11/2013 11:04, Noel Butler wrote:
>> 
>>>> 
>>>> but using system users, you wouldnt use dovecot's LDA :)
>>> 
>>> Why not?
>>> 
>> 
>> pure overkill, your MTA already knows where it goes, it doesnt need to
>> do any special lookups, would you use postfix virtual, to deliver 
>> local
>> user? no, of course you wouldnt :)
> 
> Using dovecot-lda has nothing to do with postfix virtual users, it is
> the only way I know to use sieve filtering and have messages indexed at
> delivery.
> 
> Cheers,
> Daniele

again, overkill, system users means users have full access to system 
account and can write procmail rules, if you dont allow that access, 
then you dont trust them, so you should be using virtual users.