[Dovecot] nfs director

[Noel Butler]

On Fri, 2010-08-27 at 04:04 -0700, Brandon Davidson wrote:


> To each their own. If your setup works without it, then fine, don't use
> it... but I don't see why you feel the need to disparage it either. It's


I'll some it up put well by someone who mailed me offlist...
mx-in-1 gets the connection, postfix looks up user in mysql, mysql says
" hey i know him " posfix says to sender " send away", then,
postfix applies its filters/clamav/spamassassin,(so by now all the REAL
hard work has been done) so now postfix says OK dovecot-lda here it is
so you can deliver to the NFS mounted dir, but WAIT says dovecot-lda, my
director says no i'm not the driveway you want, pop over and drive in
using to mx-in-2, so that server then gets it and whatever else it wants
to do with it now before giving it off to hte same NFS server that
mx-in-1 had.. now., this might not be so funny when you have two boxes,
but if you have many, or 20 or so like the OP... *shakes head* All they
are doing FFS is passing it along. regardless of if mx-in-2 does
anything else with it, it seems kinda strange and very backward routing
mail to another server, just to deliver on yet another device, double
handling comes to mind, even if it doesnt rescan msg and go through all
the filters again, its still an unnecessary step to send it to another
box, just to be stored on, yet another... I'd like someone to sanely
justify that to me.


> hardly bloat; those of us with larger installations do find it useful. IIRC


I dont know how large your operation is, but I suspect my 118K mailbox's
and yours together still dont match the OP's 400K
And anything that adds to requirements of a server that is not needed in
other aspects, is bloat, maybe some setups this is fine, I can not
justify modifying mine to include extra points of failure when it all
works fine.

If it becomes a problem all I need to do is modify all MTA postfix
main.cf's to not use dovecot as virtual delivery, thats commenting out
one single line, thats it, (tested already), the only difference is
postfix is still in dark ages and uses Maildir, not Maildir++, but that
is hardly a problem :)


ah well, its the weekend, so i'm out of this madness now for a few days.