[Dovecot] Dovecot deliver - direct IMAP folder delivery.

[Timo Sirainen]

On Tue, 2005-08-16 at 07:37 -0700, Marc Perkel wrote:
> I'm using Exim for my MTA. I set up a trick to deliver directly to IMAP 
> folders by using a "-" to separate the name from the folder.
> 
> user-folder at domain.com
> 
> This delivers to user at domain.com and puts it in the IMAP "folder" for 
> that user. The folder has to already exists for this to work. It's very 
> popular with my users too because it's like each folder has it's own 
> email address.
> 
> I suggest Dovecot support this idea, but it would need some 
> configuration settings. My choice of a single "-" for the delimiter 
> between user and folder probably wasn't the best choice. So the 
> delimiter needs to be setable.

I think the best way to implement this would be to code it using a Sieve
script. I'm not sure if it's powerful enough without extensions though
(I've only seen simple Sieve scripts), but I think that's the right way
to do it..