dovecot - Sep 2007 - Running a script when a mail arrives

Hi,
I'm trying to execute a script when a mail arrives in a given user's 
mailbox. Something like .dovecot.sieve.
The reason I'm not using sieve itself is that I need to do stuff on mail 
arrival, which is beyond sieve's features.

So is there a way to tell dovecot to run a script when a mail arrives in 
a certain mailbox? Optionally a solution to forward the whole mail to a 
script would be good too.

-- 
Dennis Becker

Dennis Becker wrote:
> I'm trying to execute a script when a mail arrives in a given
user's
> mailbox. Something like .dovecot.sieve.
> The reason I'm not using sieve itself is that I need to do stuff on
mail
> arrival, which is beyond sieve's features.
I am not totally sure, being very new to dovecot, but doesn't dovecot's
"deliver" execute the .dovecot.sieve if the sieve plugin is installed
and configured?

protocol lda {
   # ...
   mail_plugins = cmusieve
}

Seeing when the .dovecot.sievec is created, it looks like that is done 
on delivery time, not when reading.

Regards, Juergen.

This sounds like a better task to do at the MTA level. I know Postfix 
has the capability to do such things. You can write a Perl script for 
example and make entries in the main.cf and/or master.cf files and 
postfix will pass the e-mail to that script during the rest of it's 
processing.

Tom

Dennis Becker wrote:
> Hi,
> I'm trying to execute a script when a mail arrives in a given
user's
> mailbox. Something like .dovecot.sieve.
> The reason I'm not using sieve itself is that I need to do stuff on
mail
> arrival, which is beyond sieve's features.
> 
> So is there a way to tell dovecot to run a script when a mail arrives in 
> a certain mailbox? Optionally a solution to forward the whole mail to a 
> script would be good too.
>