[Dovecot] Dovecot LDA - Performance/issues versus postfix delivery? Also, installing on OS X?

[Curtis Maloney]

Dean Blackburn wrote:
> 
> Can anyone give me an idea of whether or not dovecot-lda can solve the 
> following issue: We seem to have constantly-corrupting dovecot* files 
> for people who fit one (or more) of the following categories:
> 
> 1) 1000+ message inboxes;
> 2) multiple clients simultaneously checking mail;
> 3) people receiving a lot of mail, and/or the server receiving and 
> trying to deliver a single message to all users at once
> 

This has the smell about it of bad locking.  Are you absolutely certain that 
both postfix and dovecot are using the _same_ locking scheme?

Oh, and is the mail store local, or on NFS?

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Curtis Maloney
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