on 11/26/2007 2:19 PM Joe Allesi -X (joallesi - Coyote Creek Consulting at Cisco) spake the following:

We're stuck on RHEL 4.x, so we're currently working on a plan to live in harmony with .99 for another year or so. With that said, the plan is below. Let me know if you have any other recommendations.

[ ]Convert to high-performance mode vice high-security to reduce overall resource usage. [ ]Implement iptables throttling for new connections to prevent denials of service. [ ]Covert from mbox to maildir to help reduce the likelihood of corruption that lead to mailbox outages.

As our overall individual mailbox usage is low, maildir seems to be a good option as mbox corruption has severely impacted a few of our high-profile applications. However, does anyone know of a sane method to use maildir on RHEL 4.x without switching over to Postfix?

Thanks!

You are not necessarily stuck with .99. You can upgrade dovecot and you only lose support on Dovecot issues. You can use maildir easily with sendmail also, as procmail in 4x supports it. You just have to create a procmailrc in /etc like below; http://linuxmafia.com/faq/Mail/procmail-maildir.html

-- MailScanner is like deodorant... You hope everybody uses it, and you notice quickly if they don't!!!!

On Mon, Nov 26, 2007 at 05:19:08PM -0500, Joe Allesi -X (joallesi - Coyote Creek Consulting at Cisco) wrote:

We're stuck on RHEL 4.x, so we're currently working on a plan to live in harmony with .99 for another year or so.

There are packages for dovecot 1.0.7 for RHEL4 at ATrpms, try them, it may be less trouble than your current plan:

http://atrpms.net/dist/el4/dovecot/

And no, no RHEL support for non-RHEL shipped binaries of course.

Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net