Yup, exactly what I hoped to avoid.
Maybe a new feature to consider for future release.
K
-Original Message-
From: micah [mailto:mi...@riseup.net]
Sent: Monday, February 22, 2016 12:19 PM
To: Kevin Kershner; Doug Hardie; Dovecot Mailing List; Timo Sirainen
Subject: RE: Dovecot Bulletin
Using doveadm copy is an interesting solution because of the hardlinking. I
wonder how fast it is, because almost every time I use the -A flag, the
iterations over 100k users takes a long time.
We email the 'bulletin' to all of our users, everyone gets a copy, that way an
admin doesn't need to do it, but it does mean that we duplicate the data quite
a lot.
Kevin Kershner <cstke...@outlook.com> writes:
> It also got the bulletin out to new users without admin intervention.
>
> Sent from Mobile
>
> From: Doug Hardie<mailto:bc...@lafn.org>
> Sent: 2/22/2016 4:02
> To: Dovecot Mailing List<mailto:dovecot@dovecot.org>; Timo
> Sirainen<mailto:t...@iki.fi>
> Cc: Kevin Kershner<mailto:cstke...@outlook.com>
> Subject: Re: Dovecot Bulletin
>
>
>> On 20 February 2016, at 18:14, Timo Sirainen <t...@iki.fi> wrote:
>>
>> On 21 Feb 2016, at 02:50, Kevin Kershner <cstke...@outlook.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> I'd like to revisit and old post if I may, will/does Dovecot support
>>> the old qpopper "Bulletin" ability?
>>>
>>> Basically I need a simple way of posting bulletins to all domain users.
>>> Qpopper maintained a bulletin db for each user and sent them the
>>> next bulletin in sequence.
>>
>> I guess there could be a plugin that does this check on each login. But
>> would it actually be useful? Why would it be better than simply sending the
>> mail to all the users? For example:
>>
>> doveadm save -A < bulletin.txt
>
> The reasons for bulletins as I see it are:
>
> 1. The doveadm save command is undocumented. It does show a cryptic line in
> the output of the command "doveadm". However, it doesn't give any clue what
> it does or how to provide the message. Your note above provides considerably
> more information on that command. I tested it and it works as you have
> indicated though.
>
> 2. The doveadm save command causes the email to be saved in each user's
> mailbox. If you have a lot of users, thats a lot of wasted disk space.
> Qpopper's bulletins only kept one copy and every user downloaded from that
> copy. All that was retained per user was a counter of the last bulletin's
> sequence number that was downloaded.
>
> — Doug
