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

[Daniele Nicolodi]

On 05/11/2013 23:39, Noel Butler wrote:
> 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.

You may enjoy writing procmail rules, most people does not :) Anyhow
dovecot indexing at delivery time is the real advantage, and I really
don't see any difference in calling dovecot-lda instead of procmail.

Cheers,
Daniele