[Dovecot] Re: delivery agent in 1.0?

[Apostolos Papayanakis]

Thanks Timo,

	Indeed in my case INBOXes are mbox format and are only accessed by
dovecot and procmail. Procmail only appends new mails onto mboxes. So as you
say, mbox_very_dirty_syncs will avoid full index rebuilding.

	I eager to use dovecot 1.x stable and to migrate into indexed
Maildir. Right now on production servers I use UW-IMAP, and I feel very
uncomfortable about it. I have resorted to multi-way disk mirroring and
stripping to handle the UW disk load, which causes average 30MB/second rates
sustained throughout working hours, with frequent peaks of 80MB/second.

	I use dovecot 0.99.12.1 for selected users, and it works ok, but I
know it will not be developed further, so I don't intend to deploy it
further.

Keep up the very good work!
-- 
Apostolis Papayanakis
apap at ccf.auth.gr, 2310-998416

On Mon, 10 Jan 2005, Timo Sirainen wrote:

> On Mon, 2005-01-10 at 00:36 +0200, Apostolos Papayanakis wrote:
> > 	I hope there will soon be a plain delivering tool for dovecot 1.x. I
> > could use it right away as the delivering step with procmail, which would
> > run it under recipient's uid and context (all recipients are real unix users
> > in my case).
>
> I'll try to get it done soon.
>
> > 	Without a local delivery agent, dovecot will always seem slower than
> > its rivals when opening INBOXes with new mails, especially large ones,
> > because of index creation delays.
>
> So you're using mboxes? If nothing else than Dovecot is modifying mboxes
> (adding mail is fine), you could use:
>
> mbox_very_dirty_syncs = yes
>
> Then the mbox is re-read only when absolutely necessary (something else
> has modified the mbox and mails aren't where they're expected). I've
> been using it for a few months (or whenever it was I added that
> feature), works fine.
>
>