[Dovecot] spamc can't seem to call /usr/lib/dovecot/deliver

[/dev/rob0]

On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 01:21:58PM -0400, Bill Shirley wrote:
> On 10/24/2012 12:44 PM, /dev/rob0 wrote:
> >I can't speak for Robert, but as I said in the other post I
> >agree with him, so I will say why. You will get better overall 
> >performance with amavisd-new and LMTP, rather than invoking a 
> >command via pipe for every delivery.

> Admittedly, I have not used amavisd-new or LMTP; they may be 
> better. But will they allow spamassassin per-user prefs?

Amavisd-new is indeed capable of per-user preferences.

> Performance is a plus; another daemon is not.  That saying, I'll 
> run another daemon if I get something out of it.  Any benchmarks
> on this?

A daemon is generally (I'd almost daresay "always") less overhead 
than the invocation of many single-delivery processes. No 
benchmarking is needed to support this fact.

That said, for many small sites, it does not matter much.
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