[Dovecot] Adding mail to dovecot directories

[Matthias Andree]

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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Matthias Andree

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