Yes, it can be problematic. At the same time though, dovecot is very
robust, and is capable of recovering from inconsistencies such as this
automatically (all by itself). I would expect performance hits when
dovecot needs to rebuild indexes and such, but I would not expect a
failure of any kind. If it fails, I'd consider it a bug (and I expect
Timo the author would as well).
If you run into problems however, I think Andreas's remedy of deleting
the dovecot-files should indeed clear things up. I'd try to check first
though to be sure that dovecot isn't in the middle of rebuilding things
already. Not sure how I'd do that off hand (ps?/lsof?).
--
-Eric 'shubes'
Martin Waschbuesch wrote:
Interesting,
I have a script that does just that (move files about in the maildir) and it
has not lead to problems yet. Though, I can definitely understand how it might
be problematic. I gotta watch out for that.
If you want to be on the safe side, I guess Eric's suggestion of using
dovecot's lda is the thing to do.
Martin
Am 08.07.2010 um 11:47 schrieb Andreas Galatis:
Hi Eric,
As far as I learned it is never a good idea to copy (or delete) messages
directly in the Maildir if you use dovecot.
I had a script deleting old mails from a clients Maildir running via cron.
The first day the script deleted old messages, the client could not access the
last listpage from squirrelmail.
I think the dovecot- index files where irritated because of missing files.
At least you would have to delete the dovecot-files in the concerned directory
(they will be rebuilt)
Andreas
Am Donnerstag, 8. Juli 2010 04:18:51 schrieb Eric Shubert:
Rajesh M wrote:
hi eric
when the email arrives in the spam box its headers contained the
"delivered to" email id in the header so my script will know where to
which email id the message is to be delivered. so my concern about bcc is
resolved.
my second question is as such
which would be better
Define better. ;)
Simply move the email from the "centralized spambox" to the inbox of that
email id
Or use the qmail-queue program to reroute the message back to the queue
for delivery.
As usual, there's more than one way.
i don't want the email time stamps changed during this process.
Which time stamps are you referring to?
On further thinking about this, I wouldn't do either. If you have
dovecot installed, I would use dovecot's deliver program. Otherwise, I'd
use the maildrop program. You should realize though that at some point
dovecot's lda (deliver) is likely going to replace maildrop. With either
program, I don't expect you'd need to do any parsing of the message in
your script - just pass it on to the lda. I could be wrong about this
though.
You could move the file to the appropriate inbox yourself and I believe
that would work, but using the lda would be 'better'. The lda really
should know what's going into the mailbox, for indexing and quota purposes.
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