dovecot - May 2007 - Moving new email from the mail spool to the inbox

We are considering switching from the Washington UW IMAP server to
Dovecot for performance reasons, but we make use of the feature in the
UW server that automatically moves new email from the mail spool to the
IMAP INBOX. Has anyone implemented this in Dovecot, or considered
implementing it ? We have a large number of users, so cannot easily
change the way that we deliver email.



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Adrian Barker, Information Systems
University College London, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT
External phone: +44 20 7679 5140,  Fax (+44) 20 7388 5406
Email: A.Barker at ucl.ac.uk

Hi Adrian,

I'm thinking this is more of an issue with your MTA, as usually that's 
responsible for delivering into the mailbox's Inbox.

You might want to look at Dovecot's LDA, "deliver" 
(http://wiki.dovecot.org/LDA).
Deliver takes an e-mail piped from your MTA, with appropriate options on 
the command-line, and delivers it into the relevant mailbox correctly.

Regards,

Andy.

Adrian Barker wrote:
> We are considering switching from the Washington UW IMAP server to
> Dovecot for performance reasons, but we make use of the feature in the
> UW server that automatically moves new email from the mail spool to the
> IMAP INBOX. Has anyone implemented this in Dovecot, or considered
> implementing it ? We have a large number of users, so cannot easily
> change the way that we deliver email.
>
>
>
>