[Dovecot] secure email server

[Frerich Raabe]

On 2013-10-23 13:21, Reindl Harald wrote:
> Am 23.10.2013 13:16, schrieb BONNET, Frank:
>> my first question is : does postfix and dovecot are able to use an
>> encrypted filesystem such as Encfs?
>
> dovecot and postfix are userland-applications
> it's not their job to bother about a filesystem
> this is a kernel-task

Not all userland applications work equally well with all filesystems
(consider programs which work poorly with NFS because they are built
around the assumption that certain syscalls are fast).

- Frerich