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[opensuse] Dovecot local delivery [Was: My thunderbird has stopped working]
- From: "Carlos E. R." <robin.listas@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 11 Sep 2010 15:34:36 +0200
- Message-id: <4C8B856C.8010604@xxxxxxxxx>
On 2010-09-11 15:14, Rodney Baker wrote:
Yep.
Things are not very clear for me.
The issue with "deliver", is that when procmail puts an email into a folder,
dovecot doesn't know
about that new email, because the index of that folder still has the old info.
When it somehow
discovers that the folder and its index do not match, it will re-index the
complete folder, or so I
understand - thus the delay. However, if the email is put by "deliver", the
index is updated from
the start (but then, perhaps "deliver" also slows the process, running for
every single email).
It seems there is a way to write procmail recipes by using deliver, which I
wasn't aware of until I
answered your email. Maybe the FAQ has been updated recently, and my
information was old.
Then there are some issues about the names of the folders, which I also know
little about. I have to
read more.
My setup is:
fetchmail -> postfix -> amavis-new -> postfix -> procmail -> folders -> client.
What I want is to intercalate dovecot at the last step, so that clients access
via imap instead of
directly. I believe it is possible, but I need further reading to clarify the
issues.
--
Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 11.2 x86_64 "Emerald" GM (Elessar))
On Sat, 11 Sep 2010 20:09:24 Carlos E. R. wrote:
It seems I can not just say: hey, those are my folders now, just use them.
But I don't use deliver - procmail delivers the mail directly to the
folders.
All my folders, however, were created by my mail client (kmail) via the IMAP
server (dovecot) so perhaps that took care of the folder structure. My
procmail rules were written after the folders were created (and the whole
structure has evolved over time) so you may be right in your case. I just
know that procmail and dovecot play nicely for me and I really don't notice
any performance issues (after all, email is hardly a real-time application
anyway).
YMMV.
Yep.
Things are not very clear for me.
The issue with "deliver", is that when procmail puts an email into a folder,
dovecot doesn't know
about that new email, because the index of that folder still has the old info.
When it somehow
discovers that the folder and its index do not match, it will re-index the
complete folder, or so I
understand - thus the delay. However, if the email is put by "deliver", the
index is updated from
the start (but then, perhaps "deliver" also slows the process, running for
every single email).
It seems there is a way to write procmail recipes by using deliver, which I
wasn't aware of until I
answered your email. Maybe the FAQ has been updated recently, and my
information was old.
Then there are some issues about the names of the folders, which I also know
little about. I have to
read more.
My setup is:
fetchmail -> postfix -> amavis-new -> postfix -> procmail -> folders -> client.
What I want is to intercalate dovecot at the last step, so that clients access
via imap instead of
directly. I believe it is possible, but I need further reading to clarify the
issues.
--
Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 11.2 x86_64 "Emerald" GM (Elessar))
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