[Dovecot] Simulating UW Snarf...

[Todd Piket]

Again, thanks all who responded.  I'm still interested in ideas.  As for 
the plugin, I am loving that idea!  So, on to my favorite editor and 
some C code.  Quick question: are plugins only in 1.0?

It is going to be difficult, at best, to get my institution to let me 
run "non-production" code in our production environment.

Is dovecot-stable still around and, if so, is that considered production 
level?  Does that have the plugin architecture in it?  I have until 
March 5th so if 1.0 is out by then I'm good anyway ;).

Regards,

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| Todd Piket                        | Email: todd at mtu.edu    |
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Timo Sirainen wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-02-08 at 16:42 -0500, Todd Piket wrote:
>> The perfect scenario would be if Dovecot could check /var/mail/%u to see 
>> if there is new mail and if so, *attempt* to move it to ~/Maildir.  If 
>> Dovecot gets an over quota message it can stop and just return "No new 
>> mail" to the client and allow the user to see existing mail, but do 
>> nothing more.  This should happen every time the user "checks" for new 
>> mail such that an under quota scenario (user deletes Sent folder 
>> messages, for instance) results in mail from /var/mail/%u to be 
>> "delivered" to ~/Maildir.
> 
> Oh, and this could probably be done best using a plugin. You could check
> plugins/convert code as an example how to copy mails from one storage
> format to another at login. You could even hook into Dovecot's expunge
> operation so that immediately after expunging it tries to move more
> mails into INBOX. Doing it only while logging in isn't probably enough
> since IMAP connections can last a long time.
> 
> BTW. if you haven't already, you should also place Dovecot's indexes and
> maildir control dir to non-quota partition or things break.