On 10/25/2012 1:00 PM, Stan Hoeppner wrote:
Switch Postfix to use the Dovecot Local Deliver Agent (LDA) in place of the Postfix local/virtual delivery agent. Using Dovecot LDA eliminates the file locking issue. Thus it also increases throughput as lock latency is eliminated. It also enables using all the Dovecot delivery plugins such as Sieve, Quota, anti-spam, etc.
I forgot to mention one very important feature of Dovecot LDA:
New messages delivered by Postfix are indexed by LDA as they are written to the mailbox, flags updated at this time, etc. Thus when a mailbox is opened in an IMAP MUA, new messages are displayed instantly (I don't use POP but it's probably faster as well). With your current setup it can take from a few to many seconds to show new mail, depending on message count. With LDA new message count seems to have no impact on the speed of display.
-- Stan