On Fri, 13 Jun 2014, Chuck Campbell wrote:
On Fri, Jun 13, 2014 at 09:14:06AM -0400, Jason Pyeron wrote:
Does anyone know how to get procmail and dovecot to play happily
together with mboxes? I'm on Centos 6.5, fully patched.
I'm getting tons of lock timeouts which is killing performance.
That is 1 of 2 reasons why we switched to Maildir.
What was the second reason? Always looking for justification to take
up the line with my recommendations...
I can't speak for Jason, but here are some of our reasons for
switching to Maildir (which works well with procmail):
1. Incremental backups are much smaller
2. Large mailboxes aren't a bottle neck
Bruce Schneier recently quipped that sometime around 2006 he stopped
filing messages into named folders because e-mail searches became
faster than manually sort. Many folks now use e-mail clients with
pretty fast search features, so using mailboxes as a sort of
filesystem became inefficient -- so mailboxes (particularly the main
inbox) get large. Maildir is so much faster in that sort of
environment.
(I'm a dinosaur, still using a CLI mail client, so I still prefer
folder-based organization -- but I recognize I'm part of a small and
shrinking minority.)
Are there any tools to convert procmailrc files to maildir
compatible recipes?
Changing destination names, and adding closing '/' characters is
really all that's needed. E.g.,
:0
* ^List-Id:.*<centos\.centos\.org>
mailinglists/centos
becomes
:0
* ^List-Id:.*<centos\.centos\.org>
.mailinglists.centos/
The closing '/' tells procmail to use Maildir.
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