On Mon, 2006-06-12 at 16:45 +0300, Timo Sirainen wrote:
From dovecot's perspective it should serve most of the same purposes as an LDA in terms of not having deliveries screw up your indexes
I'm not sure what you mean with this. Delivering the mails to a temporary mailbox and copying them from there to the real mailbox at least use much more disk I/O than what is saved by having the index files always being up-to-date.
System delivery is "someone else's problem" but the point is that you only have the duplicate work if you specifically want it. That is, if most users pop and delete they won't have any of the extra file creation overhead of maildirs, which I think makes an overall win, and the transition for those who use imap becomes transparent instead of needing an awkward coordination between changing delivery methods, converting the existing mailbox, and changing receiving methods with delivery stopped while that happens.
-- Les Mikesell lesmikesell@gmail.com