dovecot - Sep 2006 - put procmail between postfix and dovecot

Hello,

a couple of months ago, also thanks to help from this list, I set up
postfix and dovecot for virtual domains on a Centos 4 remote server.

I have postfix set up to deliver all email for marco at domain1.net to

/var/mail/vhosts/marco_domain1.net/

Everything is fine, as far as postfix is concerned: all email to
marco at domain1.net goes in that mailbox, dovecot sees it, etc...

Now I need to add sorting all incoming email in subfolders:

mail from SOME_LIST to marco_domain1.net/SOMELIST/
(lots of other rules for custom folders)
all else to main inbox

I have to do all this sorting with procmail for two reasons:

- I want to have as little sw as possible on that server, and update
  it semi-automatically, if possible only from the official
  repositories: procmail has these characteristics

- I want to reuse as is, with the smallest possible amount of
  translation, filtering, etc, the very long and complicated
  procmailrc files I have built over the years on several servers.

My question is how do I have to modify (with a perl or similar script)
the procmail rules so that they sort messages in maildir folders which:

- are fully compatible with dovecot (and Squirrelmail)
- (very useful, but not mandatory) can be viewed in categories and subcategories
  from Squirrelmail:

	      personal/
			friends/
			family/
	      mailing_lists/
			postfix/
			dovecot/
			....
	      work/

- *all* the messages, no matter how they were sorted on the server, can still
  be downloaded with fetchmail from home

Note that I am not asking anybody to write the script for me (if you
want to share a ready one, of course, I'll be glad). I just need to
know what is the exact syntax/ folder naming conventions I have to follow
to make all I wrote above happen.

TIA,
	Marco

-- 
Marco Fioretti                    mfioretti, at the server mclink.it
Fedora Core 5 for low memory      http://www.rule-project.org/

Everyone is entitled to their own opinion, but not their own facts
					       Daniel Patrick Moynihan

You can try my procmail patch posted on this list,

Ciao,
Gerhard

On Sat, 16 Sep 2006, M. Fioretti wrote:
> Hello,
>
> a couple of months ago, also thanks to help from this list, I set up
> postfix and dovecot for virtual domains on a Centos 4 remote server.
>
> I have postfix set up to deliver all email for marco at domain1.net to
>
> /var/mail/vhosts/marco_domain1.net/
>
> Everything is fine, as far as postfix is concerned: all email to
> marco at domain1.net goes in that mailbox, dovecot sees it, etc...
>
> Now I need to add sorting all incoming email in subfolders:
>
> mail from SOME_LIST to marco_domain1.net/SOMELIST/
> (lots of other rules for custom folders)
> all else to main inbox
>
> I have to do all this sorting with procmail for two reasons:
>
> - I want to have as little sw as possible on that server, and update
>  it semi-automatically, if possible only from the official
>  repositories: procmail has these characteristics
>
> - I want to reuse as is, with the smallest possible amount of
>  translation, filtering, etc, the very long and complicated
>  procmailrc files I have built over the years on several servers.
>
> My question is how do I have to modify (with a perl or similar script)
> the procmail rules so that they sort messages in maildir folders which:
>
> - are fully compatible with dovecot (and Squirrelmail)
> - (very useful, but not mandatory) can be viewed in categories and
subcategories
>  from Squirrelmail:
>
> 	      personal/
> 			friends/
> 			family/
> 	      mailing_lists/
> 			postfix/
> 			dovecot/
> 			....
> 	      work/
>
> - *all* the messages, no matter how they were sorted on the server, can
still
>  be downloaded with fetchmail from home
>
> Note that I am not asking anybody to write the script for me (if you
> want to share a ready one, of course, I'll be glad). I just need to
> know what is the exact syntax/ folder naming conventions I have to follow
> to make all I wrote above happen.
>
> TIA,
> 	Marco
>
> -- 
> Marco Fioretti                    mfioretti, at the server mclink.it
> Fedora Core 5 for low memory      http://www.rule-project.org/
>
> Everyone is entitled to their own opinion, but not their own facts
> 					       Daniel Patrick Moynihan
>

M. Fioretti wrote:
> My question is how do I have to modify (with a perl or similar script)
> the procmail rules so that they sort messages in maildir folders which:
For storing a message to the maildir folder, just use the
"some/path/to/mailbox/" format (see the trailing slash).
> - *all* the messages, no matter how they were sorted on the server, can
still
>   be downloaded with fetchmail from home
Tell fetchmail to use IMAP. I don't see much benefit in such a setup,
but hey, it's your choice.
> Note that I am not asking anybody to write the script for me (if you
> want to share a ready one, of course, I'll be glad). I just need to
> know what is the exact syntax/ folder naming conventions I have to follow
> to make all I wrote above happen.
Can't get what are you asking about, tbh. Everything is just a standard
setup...

Cheers,
-jkt

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On Sep 16, 2006, at 12:30 PM, Jan Kundr?t wrote:
> M. Fioretti wrote:
>> My question is how do I have to modify (with a perl or similar  
>> script)
>> the procmail rules so that they sort messages in maildir folders  
>> which:
>
> For storing a message to the maildir folder, just use the
> "some/path/to/mailbox/" format (see the trailing slash).
For procmail to deliver to a maildir/, make sure you have version  
3.22 or later of procmail.