[Alpine-info] extreme slowness working with mbox files

[Mike Miller]

On Wed, 15 Oct 2008, Mark Crispin wrote:


> Most mailers (including sendmail) do not directly write mail files, but 

> instead have some external program perform that task.  All you have to 

> do is to configure the program to call tmail (part of the IMAP toolkit) 

> instead of /bin/mail, mail.local, etc.

>

> ISTR that postfix calls procmail.  You can keep procmail, and configure 

> procmail to call dmail which is specially designed for use with 

> procmail.



Thanks!  My next question was going to be about procmail, because I use 
that to filter mail list messages.  Here's something:

http://www.postfix.org/faq.html#procmail

Mike