Hello,
Actually, thousands of customers would send order emails to a system running postifx. All orders end up in orders@example.com. Then, another app fetches these emails via Dovecot (POP or IMAP), ideally at the rate of 1000 per second.
I think it might be difficult to accomplish this via POP since I think Dovecot would have to lock the account while doing the POP downloads. This makes it difficult to have more than one app downloading at a time.
Cheers, Bob
Hi Bob,
Thanks for the explanation.
I would seriously consider delivering the incoming messages to a script/program for further processing, instead of adding a POP3/IMAP layer. Postfix is well suited for to do just that. I simply cannot come up with a single good reason for "wasting" resources by stuffing an POP3/IMAP server in there, especially when it's so easy to configure Postfix to deliver to a command.
:o) /Thomas