[Dovecot] use of deliver from procmail advisable?

Kyle Wheeler kyle-dovecot at memoryhole.net
Wed Aug 15 01:21:50 EEST 2007


On Tuesday, August 14 at 10:40 PM, quoth Timo Sirainen:
>On Tue, 2007-08-14 at 19:03 +0200, martin f krafft wrote:
>> Does anyone have hard facts on how much the server process loses if
>> it encounters a folder with an index inconsistency?
>
>With v1.0 deliver doesn't do much since it doesn't update cache file.
>With v1.1 it does and it's much more useful. But even then if your IMAP
>client is going to download the message body immediately anyway it
>probably doesn't matter much.
>
>dovecot.index inconsistency checking and updating is really cheap. It's
>done all the time anyway with maildir.

In other words, on a maildir-based system, using deliver does NOT 
significantly improve performance?

~Kyle
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