I dont think we are living in the 19th century now, I think its time for the html to txt conversion to be scrapped, its screwed up the paragraph formatting ( and few other things in recent times I've seen) more than once, making it look like an a5 size book page.
how about it? On Sat, 2010-08-28 at 13:11 +1000, Noel Butler wrote: > On Fri, 2010-08-27 at 04:04 -0700, Brandon Davidson wrote: > > > > To each their own. If your setup works without it, then fine, don't use > > it... but I don't see why you feel the need to disparage it either. It's > > > I'll some it up put well by someone who mailed me offlist... > mx-in-1 gets the connection, postfix looks up user in mysql, mysql says > " hey i know him " posfix says to sender " send away", then, > postfix applies its filters/clamav/spamassassin,(so by now all the REAL > hard work has been done) so now postfix says OK dovecot-lda here it is > so you can deliver to the NFS mounted dir, but WAIT says dovecot-lda, my > director says no i'm not the driveway you want, pop over and drive in > using to mx-in-2, so that server then gets it and whatever else it wants > to do with it now before giving it off to hte same NFS server that > mx-in-1 had.. now., this might not be so funny when you have two boxes, > but if you have many, or 20 or so like the OP... *shakes head* All they > are doing FFS is passing it along. regardless of if mx-in-2 does > anything else with it, it seems kinda strange and very backward routing > mail to another server, just to deliver on yet another device, double > handling comes to mind, even if it doesnt rescan msg and go through all > the filters again, its still an unnecessary step to send it to another > box, just to be stored on, yet another... I'd like someone to sanely > justify that to me. > > > > hardly bloat; those of us with larger installations do find it useful. IIRC > > > I dont know how large your operation is, but I suspect my 118K mailbox's > and yours together still dont match the OP's 400K > And anything that adds to requirements of a server that is not needed in > other aspects, is bloat, maybe some setups this is fine, I can not > justify modifying mine to include extra points of failure when it all > works fine. > > If it becomes a problem all I need to do is modify all MTA postfix > main.cf's to not use dovecot as virtual delivery, thats commenting out > one single line, thats it, (tested already), the only difference is > postfix is still in dark ages and uses Maildir, not Maildir++, but that > is hardly a problem :) > > > ah well, its the weekend, so i'm out of this madness now for a few days.