[Dovecot] almost there with procmail and dovecot

[Nils Vogels]

M. Fioretti wrote on 30-12-2006 11:48:
> Hello,
>
> I am running dovecot-1.0-0_34 on Centos 4.4
>
> In dovecot.conf I have:
>
> default_mail_env = maildir:/var/spool/mail/vhosts/%n/%d
>
> the content of that folder is:
>
> drwxrwxr-x   3 vmail vmail   4096 Dec 30 05:23 ..
> drwx------   5 vmail vmail   4096 Sep 12 13:55 .Drafts
> drwx------   5 vmail vmail   4096 Dec 29 18:26 .Sent
> drwx------   5 vmail vmail   4096 Dec 30 03:37 .Trash
> drwx------   5 vmail vmail   4096 Dec 30 05:23 INBOX
> drwx------   5 vmail vmail   4096 Dec 30 05:10 INBOX.work
> drwx------   5 vmail vmail   4096 Dec 30 05:10 INBOX.family
> drwx------   2 vmail vmail   8192 Dec 30 03:32 cur
> -rw-------   1 vmail vmail    681 Dec 30 02:38 dovecot-uidlist
> -rw-------   1 vmail vmail    144 Dec 30 03:32 dovecot.index
> -rw-------   1 vmail vmail  21504 Dec 30 03:32 dovecot.index.cache
> -rw-------   1 vmail vmail 110300 Dec 30 03:32 dovecot.index.log
> drwx------   2 vmail vmail   4096 Dec 30 03:25 new
> -rw-r--r--   1 root  root      18 Dec 30 05:21 subscriptions
> drwx------   2 vmail vmail   4096 Dec 30 02:34 tmp
>
> and the subscription file contains:
>
> Sent
> Trash
> Drafts
>
> For reasons not really relevant here I need to use procmail as MDA:
> all the INBOX* Maildir folders are created by procmail with recipes
> like this:
>
> MAILDIR=same as in dovecot default_mail_env
>
> :0:
> * ^From: dad at his.isp.com
> INBOX.family
>
> #everything else goes to:
> :0
> * w
> INBOX/
>
> The problem right now is that procmail delivers all messages correctly
> but the folders are invisible to squirrelmail. From its interface I
> can only see Sent, Trash and Drafts. Is this a folder naming problem,
> a configuration issue or what?
>   
You are delivering to the wrong folder for Dovecot to pick it up.

When you need to deliver to your inbox, you deliver to $MAILDIR/ and
when you need to deliver to underlying mailboxes, you deliver to
$MAILDIR/.family/

Procmail doesn't know the fact that Dovecot is picking up the mail, and
it doesn't need to, so it doesn't understand the special meaning of the
"." to seperate mailboxes. All procmail needs to do is deliver in a
directory structure that Dovecot understands.

HTH & HAND!

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