You know, sometimes I am just way too slow it seems. :-)
Am 08.07.2010 um 20:29 schrieb Eric Shubert:
> I haven't looked at the deliver documentation much, let alone recently.
> I don't mean to sound like a broken record, but would you like to ask on the
> dovecot list? (dove...@dovecot.org)
> That list has been pretty active lately, and the people there are very
> helpful.
>
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> Martin Waschbuesch wrote:
>> From what I read in the deliver documentation, it cannot (unlike maildrop)
>> take an email from standard input or a file? At least that is how I read the
>> documentation.
>> If that's true I do not see how it could be used for this type of scripting.
>> Anyone can confirm / correct my observation?
>> Martin
>> Am 08.07.2010 um 11:51 schrieb Martin Waschbuesch:
>>> 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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