[Dovecot] Performance based choices

2012-07-22 Thread Hans J. Albertsson
I've stopped trying to find a HowTo that suits me right away, and instead I am happily trudging thru the Dovecot wiki, article by article. I have right up front thought of one question, a general one, and some detailed versions of that same question: Generally, is there much general performan

Re: [Dovecot] Confusion when trying to set up a first postfix+dovecot mailserver

2012-07-22 Thread Hans J. Albertsson
2012-07-22 12:41, Charles Marcus wrote: On 2012-07-22 5:53 AM, Hans J. Albertsson > As an example, to wit, in the http://wiki2.dovecot.org/SharedMailboxes/Public doc, there's a line "In the above example, you would then create Maildir mailboxes under the /var/mail/public/ directory

Re: [Dovecot] Confusion when trying to set up a first postfix+dovecot mailserver

2012-07-22 Thread Hans J. Albertsson
On 2012-07-22 11:39, Hans J. Albertsson wrote: To the point: Explain what you are going to demonstrate, and explain to what extent it can or cannot serve as a boiler-plate for more advanced configs. Complete ( in the appropriate manner ): For every single thing you display, explain what

Re: [Dovecot] Confusion when trying to set up a first postfix+dovecot mailserver

2012-07-22 Thread Hans J. Albertsson
ch faster. On 2012-07-21 21:00, Thomas Leuxner wrote: Am 21.07.2012 um 16:49 schrieb Hans J. Albertsson: location = maildir:/var/vmail/public:LAYOUT=fs:INDEX=~/public This namespace is defined for "public/shared" mailboxes<> private mailboxes: See: http://wiki2.dove

Re: [Dovecot] Confusion when trying to set up a first postfix+dovecot mailserver

2012-07-21 Thread Hans J. Albertsson
x has at least two books that have been proofread, but it doesn't look as if people proofread or vet the dovecot documentation wiki. Or is there something better to read than the HowTos, for a beginner? On 2012-07-21 13:07, Hans J. Albertsson wrote: On 2012-07-21 12:35, Charles

Re: [Dovecot] Confusion when trying to set up a first postfix+dovecot mailserver

2012-07-21 Thread Hans J. Albertsson
On 2012-07-21 12:35, Charles Marcus wrote: On 2012-07-21 5:24 AM, Hans J. Albertsson wrote: Also, Sorry if I sound like a whining kid: I am new to dovecot and postfix, but I was a software support engineer for Sun for ages, and I should really be able to manage this if I just had some

[Dovecot] Confusion when trying to set up a first postfix+dovecot mailserver

2012-07-21 Thread Hans J. Albertsson
I'm trying to set up a first test for a dovecot + postfix (+ many other things) mail server for about 1000 accounts, and I keep stumbling on confusing inconsistencies in the HowTo documents I'm trying to follow. I tried to do a simple setup with virtual users using a howto saying it was for ju