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
On 02/06/2011 10:36 AM 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? >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 -- The trapper recommends today: cafefeed.1103601 at localdomain.org
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 <some_mail_box> use the following within your rules /usr/lib/dovecot/dovecot-lda -m <some_mail_box> and the same without the -m option as the last rule in your .mailfilter. Greetings Juergen -- Juergen Daubert | mailto:jue at jue.li Korb, Germany | http://jue.li/crux