Anton Aylward wrote:
On 08/21/2014 11:18 AM, Per Jessen wrote:
I don't see it like that :-) After receiving and filtering with Spamassassin, postfix delivers incoming mails to dovecot, dovecot (optionally) stores them in the maildir after they've been filtered by sieve, then updates the index. To read them, each client has to use IMAP. (clients include TB, roundcube, smartphones, outlook etc).
And *I* don't see it like *that* :-)
Understood.
The only thing that stops me letting Thundebird read all this, and yes late-model Thunderbird *can* handle both mbox and maildir, is that Thunderbird is on my workstation and not the mail server.
IMAP? Why are you running dovecot if it isn't as an IMAP server?
Did you not see my emphasis, the highlighted "*can*"?
Actually no, I didn't see it.
The point being that Dovecot is not the *ONLY* software.
I didn't know your setup, but as you pointed out, maildir works just fine "just so long as you are completely consistent and all the MDA, readers etc are configured for that.". I have such a consistent setup, due to dovecot being the only application that touches the maildir.
See above. Really, in my setup the only software that accesses/deals/fiddles with the maildir is dovecot.
Right. Please don't fall into the absolutist "my way is the only way because its the correct way" that Linda so often communicates. Your way is not my way.
Anton, I was not trying to say it is or should be. I only mentioned that the maildir format will work fine when only dovecot accesses it. If that's not your situation, obviously my comment does not apply. -- Per Jessen, Zürich (15.1°C) http://www.dns24.ch/ - free dynamic DNS, made in Switzerland. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org