dovecot - Aug 2004 - Adding mail to dovecot directories

I run mailagent (which is similar to procmail) to filter all my
incoming messages.  I would like mailagent to put these messages
directly into my dovecot server.

What I'm doing right now is to create files (one per message) in the
"~/mail/.folder-name/new" directory, or in the case of INBOX, in the
"~/.mail/new" directory.  I have ~/.mail as my maildir.

The files created have MH style names: "1", "2", etc. and
the names
are often reused throughout the day.  That is, the file named "1"
might be created dozens of times per day with new contents.

Is this the right way?

Regards,
Chris Dean

Chris Dean <ctdean at sokitomi.com> writes:
> I run mailagent (which is similar to procmail) to filter all my
> incoming messages.  I would like mailagent to put these messages
> directly into my dovecot server.
>
> What I'm doing right now is to create files (one per message) in the
> "~/mail/.folder-name/new" directory, or in the case of INBOX, in
the
> "~/.mail/new" directory.  I have ~/.mail as my maildir.
>
> The files created have MH style names: "1", "2", etc.
and the names
> are often reused throughout the day.  That is, the file named "1"
> might be created dozens of times per day with new contents.
>
> Is this the right way?
No, it isn't.

Please check both of these documents, the original

http://www.qmail.org/man/man5/maildir.html

and the updated unique identifier:

http://cr.yp.to/proto/maildir.html

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