dovecot - Nov 2017 - dovecot-lda without starting dovecot?

On Mon, 6 Nov 2017 08:37:11 +0200
Sami Ketola <sami.ketola at dovecot.fi> wrote:
> > On 5 Nov 2017, at 12.55, Stephan von Krawczynski <skraw.ml at
ithnet.com>
> > wrote: Sorry to say this setup works flawlessly for years. The only
> > addition we will make now is to do the delivery with dovecot-lda.
> > Everything else (including multiple dovecot pop/imap servers) will
stay as
> > is. Hopefully dovecot-lda does not fiddle around with the indexes too
> > much, as we then would have to delete this part of the code out. It is
not
> > needed as we found out during the last 10 years of delivering mails
into
> > the maildirs by atomic rename action while dovecot is presenting them
over
> > imap.  
> 
> 
> Feel free to do anything you like. I'm just going to mention to people
later
> reading these from the achives not to take this kind of strange hack as an
> example of recommended dovecot clustering. Instead consider it as an
> opposite of any best practices cluster setup.
> 
> Sami
Maybe they are interested that it runs like charm ;-)
Of course it is overly complex to let dovecot-lda look up the mail_location
since we already know that when starting it, but at least it shows a nice
output in the logs.
Still we are not content with it touching/locking dovecot.index.log. If
someone pointed at one location in the code where this could be disabled we
would implement a new param for switching that off.

-- 
Regards,
Stephan

On 11/6/2017, 4:01:19 AM, Stephan von Krawczynski <skraw.ml at ithnet.com>
wrote:
> Still we are not content with it touching/locking dovecot.index.log. If
> someone pointed at one location in the code where this could be disabled we
> would implement a new param for switching that off.
?????????????????????????

Dovecot's indexing is one of its main features, and WHY it is so much
faster than others.

And you want to just turn it off? Good luck...

On Mon, 6 Nov 2017 09:50:16 -0500
Tanstaafl <tanstaafl at libertytrek.org> wrote:
> On 11/6/2017, 4:01:19 AM, Stephan von Krawczynski <skraw.ml at
ithnet.com>
> wrote:
> > Still we are not content with it touching/locking dovecot.index.log.
If
> > someone pointed at one location in the code where this could be
disabled we
> > would implement a new param for switching that off.  
> 
> ?????????????????????????
> 
> Dovecot's indexing is one of its main features, and WHY it is so much
> faster than others.
> 
> And you want to just turn it off? Good luck...
It seems you have not understood what I am talking about. Our pre-dovecot lda
did not touch the index either. And it did not harm the imap/pop procedure in
any way. So we know there is no need to fiddle with the index in the process
of delivery into the maildirs to keep our performance as it was before.

-- 
Regards,
Stephan