On Fri, 23 Oct 2009, Nils Doormann wrote: > On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 08:56:31AM -0700, Davide Libenzi wrote: > > On Fri, 23 Oct 2009, Nils Doormann wrote: > > > > > Hello list, > > > > > > I am using xmail 1.25-4 in conjunction with dovecot-imapd 1:1.2.4-2 and > > > spamassassin 3.2.5-6. > > > > > > The install packages come from Debian squeeze/sid and everything works > > > fine so far. > > > > > > However, I wonder how xmail delivers mail to final Maildirs and how a > > > different Maildir based on, say as-spam-tagged content, can be selected. > > > > > > My intention is to set up sieve for dovecot-imap, but this requires to > > > modify the local mail delivery agent. This is possible for exim, postfix > > > and others through their configuration files as mentioned in > > > http://wiki.dovecot.org/LDA. How can this be achieved in XMail? > > > > > > Does xmail use procmail for that? > > > > Can you explain better what this alternative delivery method will have to > > do? > > Hi Davide, thanks for your quick reply. > > I use sa_filter.pl filter script in filters.in.tab from > http://www.drakeconsult.com/xmail/ to invoke spamassassin, which modifies the > mail in the way that it adds an "X-Spam-Flag: YES" header entry in case of > the message detected as spam. > > My intention now is to directly deliver the tagged mails directly to a > Maildir "subfolder" like > > ...spool/xmail/domains/domain.tld/%u/Maildir/Spam > > instead of > > ...spool/xmail/domains/domain.tld/%u/Maildir > > 1. While in postfix for example this can be easily modified through an entry > its master.cf configuration file I dont know where to configure xmail > accordingly. > > 2. Using dovecot-imapd with sieve mailfilter can handle direct mail delivery > to other maildir directories than the default of > .../domains/domain.tld/%u/Maildir, as describerd in > http://wiki.dovecot.org/LDA/Sieve#SpamAssassin_tagged_mail_filtering . As far > as I understood this is accomplished by "deliver", a local delivery agent > that comes with dovecot and runs in place of the lda provided by the mta, say > postfix's sendmail/procmail or whatever. > > 3. For this to set up the program/method for local delivery has to be > replaced by "deliver" which in turn handles mail filtering through sieve. > > Maybe this can be easyer achieved through a filter.in.tab entry and I'm > thinking too "dovecot"... If so, I havent found a way to do yet. > > I hope, I've expressed myself more precisely now :)
Actually, you may be better off using a "filter" command inside the users mailproc.tab for that. - Davide _______________________________________________ xmail mailing list xmail@xmailserver.org http://xmailserver.org/mailman/listinfo/xmail
