[Dovecot] Procmail and dovecot interactions

[Jeff Turner]

Hi,

I'm using procmail to deliver to Maildir directories:

DEFAULT=${HOME}/Maildir/

I notice dovecot keeps a 'dovecot-uidlist' plus cache and index files, in
each maildir. How is it that dovecot keeps these up to date when the
contents of cur/ keeps changing?

Is dovecot scanning cur/ every so often checking for changes? Isn't this
slow for large folders (100k+)?

I note on the Dovecot LDA page[1], that it keeps the "Dovecot index base
up to date". Does this mean Dovecot isn't expected to work properly with
a delivery agent which doesn't know about its indexes?


Cheers,
Jeff

[1] http://wiki.dovecot.org/LDA