[Dovecot] use of deliver from procmail advisable?

[Kyle Wheeler]

On Tuesday, August 14 at 04:38 PM, quoth martin f krafft:
>I understand that dovecot's deliver does a little more than deliver:

It also understands the 'seive' filter language (an alternative to 
procmail).

>What do you think will be less resource-heavy: calling deliver for
>every mail received *in addition to* procmail, or letting the IMAP
>server update the metadata on access?

Unless you're cutting it close to the limit on what your server can 
handle, that's probably the wrong question to ask. A better question 
is: which gives my users better performance? And the answer to THAT is 
'using deliver'. The issue is that updating the metadata on access 
means that dovecot does more work when your users ask for their mail, 
as opposed to doing more work when your users aren't paying attention. 
Dovecot will *seem* snappier if you do the indexing work on delivery 
rather than on access, even though it may spend more CPU cycles 
overall to do so.

~Kyle
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