[Dovecot] Disable maildir indexing and dovecot-uidlist on LMTP/LDA delivery

[Jouko Nikula]

I would like to use sieve plugin for server side filtering and I've
understood that LMTP/LDA is required for this.


On Wed, Apr 2, 2014 at 5:48 PM, Tom Hendrikx <tom at whyscream.net> wrote:

> On 04/02/2014 12:27 PM, Jouko Nikula wrote:
> > Hello all,
> >
> > Is there a way to use LMTP (or LDA) so that maildir index and
> > dovecot-uidlist are not updated?
> >
> > My setup is such that mail delivery sees user's maildir as write only.
> This
> > setup works well when using postfix for mail delivery, but when I try to
> > switch to dovecot LMTP the lmtp process wants to read the dovecot-uidlist
> > and fails on insufficient privileges. Is there a way around this without
> > exposing the maildir and mail home  for read access?
> >
> > Regards,
> > Jouko Nikula
> >
>
> When indexes cannot be updated upon delivery, there is no real benefit
> in using dovecot's delivery mechanisms. So you could just simply let
> postfix deliver the messages.
>
> Tom
>