31 Mar
2007
31 Mar
'07
8:34 p.m.
On Sat, Mar 31, 2007 at 08:32:40AM -0400, Jeff A. Earickson wrote:
My one concern about dovecot is the "feeping creaturism" in the code. Why does it have to be an LDA? That is what procmail is for. And designing your own mailbox format (dbox?) seems dangerous too. I would have it stick to POP and IMAP, period. But then it is not my code either. It works great for IMAP, which is what I need.
Using the Dovecot LDA will improve POP3/IMAP performance, as the index files are being updated on delivery instead of login time. So it sure makes sense to combine the LDA with the POP3/IMAP daemon. An as soon as those are combined, the actual mailbox format (mbox/maildir/dbox) is just an internal interface for dovecot.
Geert