[Dovecot] dovecot, procmail and deliver

[Gerhard Wiesinger]

Hello!

Try my patch from:
http://dovecot.org/pipermail/dovecot/2006-July/014656.html

You can use dovecots deliver program with procmail, it also trips the 
from lines. It works well for me since July 2006.

Logging is done through the procmail logging.

Ciao,
Gerhard

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http://www.wiesinger.com/

On Tue, 3 Oct 2006, David Lee wrote:

> (Using dovecot 1.0 RC7 on Fedora Core 5)
>
>
> <scene set>
>
> Hitherto we have used UW-IMAP on a "farm" of Linux machines mounting NFS
> from a NetApp.  (The UW-IMAP author doesn't like use of NFS, but with
> careful use of NFS mount arguments ('noac,actimeo=0' etc.) and trying to
> ensure that all activity for a given user takes place within one machine
> in the farm, we seem to have been OK.)  We have also used UW-IMAP's
> 'tmail' (in sendmail.cf) and 'dmail' (from any user procmail recipes), so
> that access to the INBOX has been consistently UW-IMAP software.
>
> We are now considering doing a transparent migration to dovecot to improve
> performance.
>
> </scene>
>
> ---
> First: a general question:  To complement the UW->dovecot migration of the
> IMAP daemon (reading the INBOX and folders), ought I to do a similar
> delivery-side migration from [UW] tmail/dmail to [dovecot] 'deliver'?
> It would feel safer this way, but maybe I worry too much...
>
> ---
> Second: "deliver" seems to add an unconditional "From " line at the start
> of each delivery.  From sendmail, using the 'n' flag, "Mlocal F=...n..."
> that is OK.  (Although I'm not convinced that "dovecot.deliver", nor its
> two-space separator (emphasis on "two") from the following date are
> ideal.  Nor, come to that line's lack of "@somewhere".)
>
> But from a procmail recipe, I end up with two "From " lines.  Surely this
> is incorrect.  How can this be reduced to one?  Shouldn't "deliver" ensure
> that there is only "From " line?
>
> ---
> Third: Would it be possible for "deliver" to do a "syslog" entry to
> confirm final delivery into the destination mailbox, please?  (I could try
> and produce a patch, but someone else with more dovecot familiarity could
> probably do the job must more quickly and probably also more cleanly!)
>
>
> (I think that's all for the moment.)
>
>
>
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