dovecot - Apr 2014 - Disable maildir indexing and dovecot-uidlist on LMTP/LDA delivery

Hello all,

Is there a way to use LMTP (or LDA) so that maildir index and
dovecot-uidlist are not updated?

My setup is such that mail delivery sees user's maildir as write only. This
setup works well when using postfix for mail delivery, but when I try to
switch to dovecot LMTP the lmtp process wants to read the dovecot-uidlist
and fails on insufficient privileges. Is there a way around this without
exposing the maildir and mail home  for read access?

Regards,
Jouko Nikula

On 04/02/2014 12:27 PM, Jouko Nikula wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> Is there a way to use LMTP (or LDA) so that maildir index and
> dovecot-uidlist are not updated?
> 
> My setup is such that mail delivery sees user's maildir as write only.
This
> setup works well when using postfix for mail delivery, but when I try to
> switch to dovecot LMTP the lmtp process wants to read the dovecot-uidlist
> and fails on insufficient privileges. Is there a way around this without
> exposing the maildir and mail home  for read access?
> 
> Regards,
> Jouko Nikula
> 
When indexes cannot be updated upon delivery, there is no real benefit
in using dovecot's delivery mechanisms. So you could just simply let
postfix deliver the messages.

Tom

Il 02/04/2014 12:27, Jouko Nikula ha scritto:
> Hello all,
>
> Is there a way to use LMTP (or LDA) so that maildir index and
> dovecot-uidlist are not updated?
>
> My setup is such that mail delivery sees user's maildir as write only.
This
> setup works well when using postfix for mail delivery, but when I try to
> switch to dovecot LMTP the lmtp process wants to read the dovecot-uidlist
> and fails on insufficient privileges. Is there a way around this without
> exposing the maildir and mail home  for read access?
>
> Regards,
> Jouko Nikula
>
Hi,

I'm running dovecot with index disabled on LDA (but isn't possibile to 
disable dovecot-uidlist update).

Disable index update with LDA is usefull in some situation (one POP/IMAP 
server and two or more MX) and can be set up with:

protocol lda {
   mail_location = whatever-you-have-now:INDEX=MEMORY
}

Take a look at this thread:

http://www.dovecot.org/list/dovecot/2012-January/062924.html

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