[Dovecot] transitional weirdnesses

Timo Sirainen tss at iki.fi
Wed Aug 20 06:14:23 EEST 2003


On Wed, 2003-08-20 at 01:55, Eric S. Johansson wrote:
> Architecturally, I consider putting the filter in the LDA appropriate because 
> the filter operations happen at delivery time when it's appropriate not as you 
> are trying to read your inbox.  It's also the appropriate place to put other 
> types of processing such as antispam and antivirus checking.

It's also where I was going to put the Sieve scripting. I was going to
create a separate "deliver" binary which would read the mail from stdin
and place it into proper mailbox. This could be also used to update
indexes immediately while mail is being delivered.




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