dovecot-lda without starting dovecot?

[Stephan von Krawczynski]

On Tue, 07 Nov 2017 13:19:12 +1000
Noel Butler <noel.butler at ausics.net> wrote:
 
> mail_location   Optionally disable indexes using   :INDEX=MEMORY  
> 
> don't use this on IMAP boxes, but is safe to use on SMTP and POP3's
> boxes though 
> 
> eg: 
> 
> mail_location =
> maildir:/var/vmail/%Ld/%1Ln/%1.1Ln/%2.1Ln/%Ln/Maildir:INDEX=MEMORY 
> 
> -- 
> Kind Regards, 
> 
> Noel Butler 

Hello Noel,

this sounds interesting. Can you please elaborate why you think this is no
good idea for IMAP?
We used a different LDA-scheme before (simply created the mail in maildir/tmp,
then renamed it to maildir/new, just like Bernstein suggests to do) and it
worked very well, no matter if the box was used whith IMAP or POP3.
Why should there be any difference in using dovecot-lda without indexes?
Does dovecot-lda "create" the new mail by atomic rename from tmp, too?

-- 
Regards,
Stephan