[Dovecot] howto disable indexing on dovecot-lda ?

Adrian Minta adrian.minta at gmail.com
Fri Jan 6 15:02:31 EET 2012


On 01/06/12 13:50, Stan Hoeppner wrote:
> On 1/6/2012 5:07 AM, Adrian Minta wrote:
>> Hello,
>> is it possible to disable indexing on dovecot-lda ?
>>
>> Right now postfix delivers the mail directly to the nfs server without
>> any problems. If I switch to dovecot-lda the system crashes do to the
>> high I/O and locking.
>> Indexing on lda is not very useful because the number of of imap logins
>> is less than 5% that of incoming mails, so an user could wait for 3 sec
>> to get his mail index, but a new mail can't.
> Then why bother with Dovecot LDA w/disabled indexing (the main reason
> for using it in the first place) instead of simply sticking with Postfix
> Local(8)?
>

Because of sieve and quota support. Another possible advantage will be 
the support for hashed mailbox directories.




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