[Dovecot] OT list modification Re: nfs director

[Noel Butler]

I dont think we are living in the 19th century now,
I think its time for the html to txt conversion to be scrapped, its
screwed up the paragraph formatting ( and few other things in recent
times I've seen) more than once, making it look like an a5 size book
page.

how about it?


On Sat, 2010-08-28 at 13:11 +1000, Noel Butler wrote:

> 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.