[Linux-disciples] Fetchmail and Postfix

[Adam Rosi-Kessel]

On Sun, Jul 25, 2004 at 08:52:06AM -0400, Stephen R Laniel wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 25, 2004 at 08:47:23AM -0400, Adam Rosi-Kessel wrote:
> > I'm currently using dovecot which supports IMAP{,S} and/or POP3{,s} and
> > has a simple, easy to understand config file.  You might also try the
> > more standard uw-imapd or cyrus-imapd, which are probably a little more
> > thoroughly tested.  dovecot probably takes fewer resources.
> Just after I wrote, I installed dovecot. I looked through
> /etc/dovecot.conf and found nothing that really needed
> changing. The only thing that really puzzles me is: at what
> point does dovecot get around to generating the metadata?
> I'd think it'd be inefficient for it to do so only when
> the user first requests his folders, say. But I'll see what
> happens with my 'friend' 'Brian.' So thanks, 'Adam.'

If your 'friend' is only using your server as an 'inbox' (i.e., just to
fetch off of) you don't need to worry about metadata.  By metadata, I
presume you mean the user's folders.  dovecot.conf should contain
something like:

default_mail_env = mbox:%h/Mail:INBOX=/var/mail/%u

which tells it that a user's folders are in /home/user/Mail, and that her
inbox is /var/mail/user.  If the user only ever accesses her inbox, then
the folders don't matter.

But, yes, I think as a matter of practice, the .imap directories are only
generated when a folder is accessed.  I can't think of any other way to
do this--it sounds like you think it should be generated when mail is
delivered to a folder, but there really isn't any communication between
postfix and dovecot, so I'm not sure how that would work.
-- 
Adam Rosi-Kessel
http://adam.rosi-kessel.org
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