[Dovecot] Simulating UW Snarf...

[Steffen Kaiser]

On Thu, 9 Feb 2006, Todd Piket wrote:

> A scenario similar to what you describe has been discussed in the group and 
> is still a possibility.  The plugin for Dovecot is presenting itself as the 
> simplest and cleanest solution so far.  The MTA will, of course, "do the

When there is "just" the INBOX, that's OK, but when you allow mail 
filtering, this can be problematic:

a) you need to keep both sets of folders in sync and scan all of them for 
new mails,&
b) probably is possible to filter in condition of already present mails.

There would be another way to overcome the quota problem by having the 
file operations be performed by root. E.g. the LDA spools the file into 
MailDir's tmp/, then drops to user privilges, then performs filtering, 
spooling, bouncing a.s.o. This has security implications, probably, but 
because of the naming style of the files, there should be no clashes, e.g. 
when tmp/ is symlink into other areas of the filesystem.

Bye,

-- 
Steffen Kaiser