> > Hello, > > Actually, thousands of customers would send order emails to a system > running postifx. All orders end up in ord...@example.com. Then, > another app fetches these emails via Dovecot (POP or IMAP), ideally at > the rate of 1000 per second. > > I think it might be difficult to accomplish this via POP since I think > Dovecot would have to lock the account while doing the POP downloads. > This makes it difficult to have more than one app downloading at a > time. > > Cheers, > Bob >
Hi Bob, Thanks for the explanation. I would seriously consider delivering the incoming messages to a script/program for further processing, instead of adding a POP3/IMAP layer. Postfix is well suited for to do just that. I simply cannot come up with a single good reason for "wasting" resources by stuffing an POP3/IMAP server in there, especially when it's so easy to configure Postfix to deliver to a command. :o) /Thomas