On 05/11/2013 23:39, Noel Butler wrote: > On 05/11/2013 22:04, Daniele Nicolodi wrote: >> On 05/11/2013 12:24, Noel Butler wrote: >>> On 05/11/2013 20:11, Daniele Nicolodi wrote: >>>> On 05/11/2013 11:04, Noel Butler wrote: >>> >>>>> >>>>> but using system users, you wouldnt use dovecot's LDA :) >>>> >>>> Why not? >>>> >>> >>> pure overkill, your MTA already knows where it goes, it doesnt need to >>> do any special lookups, would you use postfix virtual, to deliver >>> local >>> user? no, of course you wouldnt :) >> >> Using dovecot-lda has nothing to do with postfix virtual users, it is >> the only way I know to use sieve filtering and have messages indexed at >> delivery. >> >> Cheers, >> Daniele > > again, overkill, system users means users have full access to system > account and can write procmail rules, if you dont allow that access, > then you dont trust them, so you should be using virtual users.
You may enjoy writing procmail rules, most people does not :) Anyhow dovecot indexing at delivery time is the real advantage, and I really don't see any difference in calling dovecot-lda instead of procmail. Cheers, Daniele
