Ok, here is Timo's response to my question:

Am 11.07.2010 um 21:01 schrieb Timo Sirainen:

> On Sat, 2010-07-10 at 09:14 +0200, Martin Waschbuesch wrote:
> 
>> 1.) Is there any danger regarding  maildir consistency in directly moving 
>> mail items about?
> 
> No. Assuming you use "mv" and not "cp" (and it's all in the same
> filesystem) so that the move is atomic.
> 
>> 2.) Could I somehow use deliver to move the mails? I think I can recall that 
>> other LDAs (maildrop?) allow for that? This would of course be preferred as 
>> the maildir cache would also still be optimized after the operation.
> 
> "deliver -u user -m mailboxname" could be used to save new mails. Maybe
> a save + delete would work too. I don't really think it's worth it.
> 
>> If anyone has any suggestions, I'd really appreciate this.
> 
> See the antispam plugin:
> http://johannes.sipsolutions.net/Projects/dovecot-antispam

So, since I have not seen any issues with the way I do it (it is indeed mv and 
on same filesystem), I'll leave it as is.

Though, that does not explain why Andreas saw different behaviour?

Martin

Am 08.07.2010 um 21:12 schrieb Martin Waschbuesch:

> You know, sometimes I am just way too slow it seems. :-)
> 
> Am 08.07.2010 um 20:29 schrieb Eric Shubert:
> 
>> I haven't looked at the deliver documentation much, let alone recently.
>> I don't mean to sound like a broken record, but would you like to ask on the 
>> dovecot list? (dove...@dovecot.org)
>> That list has been pretty active lately, and the people there are very 
>> helpful.
>> 
>> -- 
>> -Eric 'shubes'


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