Re: [Dovecot] maildrop and multi-dbox
On Mon, 7 Feb 2011 13:59:12 +0100 Juergen Daubert wrote: > On Sun, Feb 06, 2011 at 10:36:29AM +0100, Manfred Lotz wrote: > > Hi there, > > I'm using Dovecot 2.0.9-1 under Arch Linux. > > > > Currently, I have Maildir configured, and I move all my emails into > > dovecot by using this sequence: > > > > 1) cron starts fetchmail periodically under user manfred to collect > > my mails from various email accounts. > > 2) In ~/.fetchmailrc I have configured /usr/bin/maildrop as MDA. > > 3) In ~/.mailfilter (used by maildrop) I have extensive filtering in > > place and call bogofilter (by using xfilter) to classify spam mails. > > > > This works fine so far. Now I'd like to migrate to dovecot's new > > format multi-dbox. > > > > My question now: Is it correct that then I cannot longer use > > maildrop and would need to switch do dovecot-lda? > > No, you can continue using maildrop. But you must finally use > dovecot's lda to deliver the mail into the mailstore. > > Instead of > > to > > use the following within your rules > > /usr/lib/dovecot/dovecot-lda -m > > and the same without the -m option as the last rule in your > .mailfilter. > Thanks, Jürgen. Yeah, you are right. It is a slight overhead (an additonal call to dovecot-lda) but would do it. If I would want to switch from maildrop to dovecot-lda what would be the best way to integrate bogofilter in the process. My idea of defining an mda as a script which chains bogofilter and dovecot-lda like this /usr/bin/bogofilter -u -e -p | /usr/lib/dovecot/dovecot-lda -a manfred would do but perhaps there is something better. -- Manfred
Re: [Dovecot] maildrop and multi-dbox
On Sun, 06 Feb 2011 12:56:55 +0100 Pascal Volk wrote: > On 02/06/2011 10:36 AM Manfred Lotz wrote: ... > > > > My question now: Is it correct that then I cannot longer use > > maildrop and would need to switch do dovecot-lda? > > > > Yes, only dovecot-lda and Dovecot's lmtp are able to store messages in > mailboxes using dbox format. But both can use the sieve plugin for > mail filtering. > > > Regards, > Pascal Thanks much. That is what I thought. I tried to figure out how to use dovecot-lda and sieve. The most difficult part was to find documentation how to code the sieve file. But I got it working. The next question is how to incorporate bogofilter? The only way I figured out to do that was to have a small script like this: #! /bin/sh /usr/bin/bogofilter -u -e -p | /usr/lib/dovecot/dovecot-lda -a manfred and to name that script as mda in fetchmail's .fetchmailrc file. Is there a better way? -- Manfred
[Dovecot] maildrop and multi-dbox
Hi there, I'm using Dovecot 2.0.9-1 under Arch Linux. Currently, I have Maildir configured, and I move all my emails into dovecot by using this sequence: 1) cron starts fetchmail periodically under user manfred to collect my mails from various email accounts. 2) In ~/.fetchmailrc I have configured /usr/bin/maildrop as MDA. 3) In ~/.mailfilter (used by maildrop) I have extensive filtering in place and call bogofilter (by using xfilter) to classify spam mails. This works fine so far. Now I'd like to migrate to dovecot's new format multi-dbox. My question now: Is it correct that then I cannot longer use maildrop and would need to switch do dovecot-lda? -- Thanks, Manfred
