dovecot - Aug 2011 - How to make dovecot-lda/deliver mark a message as seen

Hello everybody,

I am using dovecot 2.0.13 and have a special case here in which I want a 
mail that is delivered locally with dovecot-lda to be marked as
"seen".

In dovecot 1.1.7 I succeeded to achive this, by modifing deliver.c so 
that upon adding a -S switch to the command arguments, the flag 
MAIL_SEEN was added to the call of mailbox_copy(). This seemed to work 
pretty good.

With the new version, i tried to do something similar by selectively adding
mail_update_flags(ctx.src_mail, MODIFY_ADD, MAIL_SEEN);
just before the call of mail_deliver(), whenever the -S argument is given.

But this does not work. What is wrong?

Is there a better way to set MAIL_SEEN for a locally delivered mail? I 
would prefer a method that does not require to mess around in the 
dovecot sources. :-)

Thanks in advance & Best Regards,
Stefan

"Stefan Piegsa" <s at s7p.de> wrote:
> Hello everybody,
>
> I am using dovecot 2.0.13 and have a special case here in which I want
> a mail that is delivered locally with dovecot-lda to be marked as
> "seen".
>
> In dovecot 1.1.7 I succeeded to achive this, by modifing deliver.c so
> that upon adding a -S switch to the command arguments, the flag
> MAIL_SEEN was added to the call of mailbox_copy(). This seemed to work
> pretty good.
>
> With the new version, i tried to do something similar by selectively adding
> mail_update_flags(ctx.src_mail, MODIFY_ADD, MAIL_SEEN);
> just before the call of mail_deliver(), whenever the -S argument is given.
>
> But this does not work. What is wrong?
>
> Is there a better way to set MAIL_SEEN for a locally delivered mail? I
> would prefer a method that does not require to mess around in the
> dovecot sources. :-)
>
> Thanks in advance & Best Regards,
> Stefan
Have you considered using sieve for the task? 
[Using imap4flags extension]

http://wiki.dovecot.org/LDA/Sieve
#v+
if address ["Return-Path"] ["my_address at my_domain.com"]
{
   setflag "\\seen";
}
#v-

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On 08/08/2011 11:46 AM, Andrzej Adam Filip wrote:
> On 08/08/2011 09:43 AM, Stefan Piegsa wrote:
>> Thanks for your reply!
>>
>> On 08/08/2011 08:36 AM, Andrzej Adam Filip wrote:
>>> Have you considered using sieve for the task?
>>> [Using imap4flags extension]
>> Yes, but I think it's not the optimal solution for what I want to
do:
>>
>> Basically, I don't want emails to be sent first to the MTA and then
>> again to dovecot to be stored in "Sent Messages".
>> So I made a script that puts an email received from the MTA by an
>> authenticated user into his local Maildir/Sent folder, using:
>> dovecot-lda -d $user -m Sent. Such emails should be marked as seen.
>>
>> Sieve would be an option if it were possible to have a global sieve
>> script that is always executed, not only when there's no user
script.
>>
>> Best Regards,
>> Stefan
>>
> Could not you use sieve_before?
> http://wiki.dovecot.org/LDA/Sieve
>
> You may consider using sieve_after if you want to allow users to
> overwrite your choice of "self copy" handling.
>
sieve_after sounds interesting!

Is there a way to match the destination mailbox in a sieve script?
The email comes in by dovecot-lda -d $user -m Sent
Now the sieve script should somehow match the mailbox "Sent".