Please keep this on-list. I'm not doing personal support for free. On 2013-03-14 Littlefield, Tyler wrote: > On 3/14/2013 2:51 AM, Ansgar Wiechers wrote: >>On 2013-03-13 Littlefield, Tyler wrote: >>> I'd also like to be able to use procmail on these. >> >> Procmail is designed for local delivery. It looks like you can >> (ab)use it for virtual delivery as well [2], but I wouldn't recommend >> it. >> >> Please describe the problem you're trying to solve instead of what >> you perceive as the solution. What do you want procmail (or more >> generally your mail delivery agent) to do? > > Right now, Procmail for me just filters out messages like I want. For > example spam goes to the spam folder. I was trying to achieve the same > result for virtual users.
If everyone will read mail locally on the server, Procmail will do. If you're setting up an IMAP server I'd recommend using dovecot and do the filtering with Sieve. [...] >>> Finally, I'm looking for some way to handle recycling mail. I >>> personally know to clean up my own mail folder by deleting stuff (we >>> use Imap), but the support system or my girlfriend probably wouldn't >>> clean up those messages. >> >> In one word: don't. Do NOT tamper with other people's personal >> mailboxes. Ever. Set up mailbox quota if you want to restrict the >> amount of mail your users can keep. > > I understand this, but that forces them to delete. There's no harm in > say, deleting items from the "trash" folder after it's 30 days old or > something. That is NOT your decision to make. I repeat: do NOT tamper with other users' private mailboxes. You could get into a heap of legal trouble othrwise. Regards Ansgar Wiechers -- "Abstractions save us time working, but they don't save us time learning." --Joel Spolsky
