Adrian Barker wrote:
We are considering switching from the Washington UW IMAP server to Dovecot for performance reasons, but we make use of the feature in the UW server that automatically moves new email from the mail spool to the IMAP INBOX. Has anyone implemented this in Dovecot, or considered implementing it ? We have a large number of users, so cannot easily change the way that we deliver email.
Andy Shellam wrote I'm thinking this is more of an issue with your MTA, as usually that's responsible for delivering into the mailbox's Inbox.
You might want to look at Dovecot's LDA, "deliver" (http://wiki.dovecot.org/LDA). Deliver takes an e-mail piped from your MTA, with appropriate options on the command-line, and delivers it into the relevant mailbox correctly.
Adrian Barker wrote: Thanks for replying. We cannot easily change the way we deliver email, as we have over 30,000 users, who use a mixture of imap, pop and Unix email clients, so we have to continue to deliver email to a central mail spool. The MTA that we run is Exim, which has the flexibility to deliver into the 'Inbox', but we need to remain compatible with non-IMAP mailers.
This is not clear at all, why does the number of users effect the delivery method? What mailbox format are you using?
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