Hi all, Sorry if this is out of place, but I've seen people suggesting future functionality for Dovecot on here before. TBH I'm not completely sure if this would be possible in a LDA. Demon (an ISP) have extensions to POP3 they call "SDPS" - there's basically an extra command that can be called for an email and it gives the envelope rcpt and from addresses. I was wondering if there was any chance of future versions of Dovecot allowing something similar? Many thanks, Mark Lidstone IT and Network Support Administrator BMT SeaTech Ltd Grove House, Meridians Cross, 7 Ocean Way Ocean Village, Southampton. SO14 3TJ. UK Tel: +44 (0)23 8063 5122 Fax: +44 (0)23 8063 5144 E-Mail: mailto:mark.lidstone at bmtseatech.co.uk Website: www.bmtseatech.co.uk ========================================================================Confidentiality Notice and Disclaimer: The contents of this e-mail and any attachments are intended only for the use of the e-mail addressee(s) shown. If you are not that person, or one of those persons, you are not allowed to take any action based upon it or to copy it, forward, distribute or disclose the contents of it and you should please delete it from your system. BMT SeaTech Limited does not accept liability for any errors or omissions in the context of this e-mail or its attachments which arise as a result of Internet transmission, nor accept liability for statements which are those of the author and not clearly made on behalf of BMT SeaTech Limited. =========================================================================
Mark Lidstone wrote:> Demon (an ISP) have extensions to POP3 they call "SDPS" - there's > basically an extra command that can be called for an email and it gives > the envelope rcpt and from addresses. I was wondering if there was any > chance of future versions of Dovecot allowing something similar?As demon says, SDPS works by accessing "the same mail spools as are used by SMTP". Dovecot does not do this. And I don't see a need for that. Configure your MTA to put the envelope data into the mail header (e.g. Return-path and Envelope-to). I used this several times for multidrop-mailboxes (which also seems to be the main use of SDPS).
Hi, I know that's how Demon do it, but surely it's not the only way of doing it. As for putting the correct headers in, I've had no end of trouble with fetchmail ignoring those headers and picking something it found in the latest "Received:" header (which obviously names the drop-box). Thanks, Mark Lidstone IT and Network Support Administrator BMT SeaTech Ltd Grove House, Meridians Cross, 7 Ocean Way Ocean Village, Southampton. SO14 3TJ. UK Tel: +44 (0)23 8063 5122 Fax: +44 (0)23 8063 5144 E-Mail: mailto:mark.lidstone at bmtseatech.co.uk Website: www.bmtseatech.co.uk ========================================================================Confidentiality Notice and Disclaimer: The contents of this e-mail and any attachments are intended only for the use of the e-mail addressee(s) shown. If you are not that person, or one of those persons, you are not allowed to take any action based upon it or to copy it, forward, distribute or disclose the contents of it and you should please delete it from your system. BMT SeaTech Limited does not accept liability for any errors or omissions in the context of this e-mail or its attachments which arise as a result of Internet transmission, nor accept liability for statements which are those of the author and not clearly made on behalf of BMT SeaTech Limited. ======================================================================== -----Original Message----- From: Jakob Hirsch [mailto:jh at plonk.de] Sent: 01 April 2005 19:52 To: dovecot at dovecot.org Subject: Re: [Dovecot] LDA Wishlist idea Mark Lidstone wrote:> Demon (an ISP) have extensions to POP3 they call "SDPS" - there's > basically an extra command that can be called for an email and it > gives the envelope rcpt and from addresses. I was wondering if there > was any chance of future versions of Dovecot allowing something > similar?As demon says, SDPS works by accessing "the same mail spools as are used by SMTP". Dovecot does not do this. And I don't see a need for that. Configure your MTA to put the envelope data into the mail header (e.g. Return-path and Envelope-to). I used this several times for multidrop-mailboxes (which also seems to be the main use of SDPS).
But then in theory I should be able to get Fetchmail to figure that out by itself. Thanks for your reply too, Jakob. I think I'll have to have a good think about this one. Many thanks, Mark Lidstone IT and Network Support Administrator BMT SeaTech Ltd Grove House, Meridians Cross, 7 Ocean Way Ocean Village, Southampton. SO14 3TJ. UK Tel: +44 (0)23 8063 5122 Fax: +44 (0)23 8063 5144 E-Mail: mailto:mark.lidstone at bmtseatech.co.uk Website: www.bmtseatech.co.uk ========================================================================Confidentiality Notice and Disclaimer: The contents of this e-mail and any attachments are intended only for the use of the e-mail addressee(s) shown. If you are not that person, or one of those persons, you are not allowed to take any action based upon it or to copy it, forward, distribute or disclose the contents of it and you should please delete it from your system. BMT SeaTech Limited does not accept liability for any errors or omissions in the context of this e-mail or its attachments which arise as a result of Internet transmission, nor accept liability for statements which are those of the author and not clearly made on behalf of BMT SeaTech Limited. ======================================================================== -----Original Message----- From: Timo Sirainen [mailto:tss at iki.fi] Sent: 02 April 2005 23:23 To: Mark Lidstone Cc: dovecot at dovecot.org Subject: RE: [Dovecot] LDA Wishlist idea On Sat, 2005-04-02 at 10:12 +0100, Mark Lidstone wrote:> I know that's how Demon do it, but surely it's not the only way of > doing it. > > As for putting the correct headers in, I've had no end of trouble with> fetchmail ignoring those headers and picking something it found in the> latest "Received:" header (which obviously names the drop-box).But fetchmail supports SDPS? You could write POP3 plugin which implements SDPS by eg. looking at those Return-Path and Envelope-To headers and returning them..