dovecot - Feb 2008 - Put existing mails (in Maildir) through sieve filter?

Hello list, 

the scenario: A user has about 30k mails in his Maildir (all in INBOX) and 
needs to apply filtering. Provided he writes a working .dovecot.sieve script, 
is there a way to put all those already delivered mails through Dovecot's
LDA
and thus have the sieve filter rules applied? Or is there any other way to 
apply sieve rules to already delivered mails?

TIA

Andreas
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Andreas "daff" Ntaflos
Vienna, Austria

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Andreas,

You can write a shell script to do this for you.

cd ~/Maildir/cur

for i in *; do /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/deliver  -d user < $i; rm -f
$i; echo "Message $i"; done


On Thu, 2008-02-21 at 16:40 +0100, Andreas Ntaflos wrote:
> Hello list, 
> 
> the scenario: A user has about 30k mails in his Maildir (all in INBOX) and 
> needs to apply filtering. Provided he writes a working .dovecot.sieve
script,
> is there a way to put all those already delivered mails through
Dovecot's LDA
> and thus have the sieve filter rules applied? Or is there any other way to 
> apply sieve rules to already delivered mails?
> 
> TIA
> 
> Andreas


[]s,

Raphael Costa

Raphael Bittencourt S. Costa wrote:
> Andreas,
>
> You can write a shell script to do this for you.
>
> cd ~/Maildir/cur
>
> for i in *; do /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/deliver  -d user < $i; rm -f
> $i; echo "Message $i"; done
>   
it would be safer to move the messages to another directory before 
running the loop, and moving the delivrered ones to another dir instead 
of deleting them.

cd ~/Maildir
mkdir todo
mkdir done
cp cur/* todo
for  i  in todo/*; do
    echo "Delivering message $i ..."
    /path/to/deliver -d user < $i && mv $i done/
done