Hello Martin, Could you share your configuration in OpenSMTPD and Dovecot in a pastbin? Dovecot it's like a monster for me sometimes with all this files etc...
I have to build a new dovecot and your configuration could be useful for me. Thanks Cordialement Olivier Calzi 2014-04-17 7:23 GMT+02:00 Martin Braun <yellowgoldm...@gmail.com>: > Thank you very much for explaining this! :) > > 2014-04-17 6:48 GMT+02:00 Bryan Vyhmeister <br...@bsdjournal.net>: > > The advantage in dovecot delivering the mail directly is that the > indexes are updated at delivery rather than later scanned when the user > checks their mail. Also, sieve scripts work great with dovecot-lda which is > how I filter the many lists I am subscribed to. > > > > Another advantage, and one I use, is the ability to use other mailbox > formats like sdbox or mdbox (what I'm using) which allows for more > efficient folder structures and less moving around of messages. With mdbox > the index indicates what is happening with the message and the on-disk > message storage remains essentially unchanged. The doveadm command does > allow you to convert between formats as well if need be. I use it to export > an mbox of spam to use for training spam filters. > > > > In my case, I have a little over five million messages (and growing) > stored in mdbox format and that seems to be the fastest format for my use > case. The mbox format would be an absolute nightmare and Maildir isn't as > good as mdbox. That's just for my mailboxes. My other users also have tens > of thousands up to hundreds of thousands of messages and they also have no > issues with that setup. > > > > Updating a mailbox with 200,000+ messages is very quick with dovecot > indexes. If, each time I accessed the mailbox, the indexes were updated, I > would have a major spike in CPU use every time I checked my mail where now, > since the indexes are already up to date, there is no spike at all. > > > > Those are my reasons for using dovecot-lda rather than some other mail > server to do the deliveries. The combination of OpenSMTPD and dovecot > running on OpenBSD is superb. This all works perfectly on a simple server I > built with a Pentium G640, 8GB of memory, and dual 2.5-inch WD Black drives > in a softraid(4) mirror. > > > > Bryan > > -- > You received this mail because you are subscribed to misc@opensmtpd.org > To unsubscribe, send a mail to: misc+unsubscr...@opensmtpd.org > >
