Thanks, Timo. Technically, it's not a Maildir, but my plan is to re-create one with folders containing hard or symbolic links pointing to the real storage. Is it going to be a problem?
On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 10:52 AM, Timo Sirainen <t...@iki.fi> wrote: > On 31.8.2011, at 17.24, Alex Cherniak wrote: > >> I have a large existing read-only collection of mails packaged in >> individual zip files as <rfc822 file>+<some additional info>. Is it >> possible (and how difficult) to create a proprietary plugin (like >> gzip) which will open a zip file, extract mail and pass it back to >> Dovecot? Where do I start? If plugin is not the right approach, what >> is? > > Is it otherwise a Maildir? If yes, you could base your code on the zlib > plugin, or perhaps more easily you could use mail-filter plugin: > http://dovecot.org/patches/2.0/mail-filter.tar.gz > > With mail-filter you can basically just put the messages through whatever > program/script you want which gets the mail as input and outputs the wanted > message body. I think the v2.0 mail-filter had some (potential?) bug, v2.1 > mail-filter is anyway redesigned and should work perfectly. > >> Another question is how will this affect Dovecot performance and how >> to avoid any significant degradation. > > I doubt it's going to be a problem. > >