Hi, I took a stab at editing the wiki ... the changes disappeared? I guess I was overruled. The wiki (http://wiki.dovecot.org/LDA) states -m <mailbox>: Destination mailbox (default is INBOX). If the mailbox doesn't exist, it's created (unless -n is used). If message couldn't be saved to the mailbox for any reason, it's delivered to INBOX instead. I tried to add a little note that the sieve plugin takes precedence. For example if at the end of the a .dovecot.sieve there is a line like: fileinto "CompanyFolders.general"; then the -m <mailbox> is ignored. I am not sure about the use of 'stop'. -n: If the destination mailbox doesn't exist, don't create it. This affects both -m parameter and fileinfo action in Sieve scripts. The fallback is to deliver mail to INBOX. (typo: fileinto not fileinfo) My testing shows that if the mailbox does not exist then the mail is rejected like so: ==Your message was automatically rejected by Dovecot Mail Delivery Agent. The following reason was given: Mailbox doesn't exist: mail-lists.debian == I like the wiki's solution better. Jim
> -n: If the destination mailbox doesn't exist, don't create it. This affects > both -m parameter and fileinfo action in Sieve scripts. The fallback is to > deliver mail to INBOX. > > (typo: fileinto not fileinfo) > > My testing shows that if the mailbox does not exist then the mail is > rejected like so: > > ==> Your message was automatically rejected by Dovecot Mail Delivery Agent. > > The following reason was given: > Mailbox doesn't exist: mail-lists.debian > ==has anyone else used the -n with a non-existent mailbox and had the mail delivered to INBOX like the wiki states?
On Sat, 2007-03-24 at 03:26 -0400, Jim Horner wrote:> I took a stab at editing the wiki ... the changes disappeared? I guess I was > overruled.I've seen anonymous edits, so they should work. Did you write the captcha? If you didn't, it should have given a nice red warning that the changes weren't saved. Anyway, I added the note about -m and Sieve.> My testing shows that if the mailbox does not exist then the mail is rejected > like so:So it seems. Fixed: http://dovecot.org/list/dovecot-cvs/2007-March/008355.html -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part URL: <http://dovecot.org/pipermail/dovecot/attachments/20070326/be1fa001/attachment.bin>
> > My testing shows that if the mailbox does not exist then the mail is > > rejected like so: > > So it seems. Fixed: > http://dovecot.org/list/dovecot-cvs/2007-March/008355.htmlVerified. Thanks. The small "feature" of ignoring "" for -m is really going to save us a lot of sieve writing. Thanks.> I've seen anonymous edits, so they should work. Did you write the > captcha? If you didn't, it should have given a nice red warning that the > changes weren't saved.I added stuff to other pages. I dunno what happened... most likely user error.