[Dovecot] put procmail between postfix and dovecot

[Gerhard Wiesinger]

You can try my procmail patch posted on this list,

Ciao,
Gerhard

On Sat, 16 Sep 2006, M. Fioretti wrote:

> Hello,
>
> a couple of months ago, also thanks to help from this list, I set up
> postfix and dovecot for virtual domains on a Centos 4 remote server.
>
> I have postfix set up to deliver all email for marco at domain1.net to
>
> /var/mail/vhosts/marco_domain1.net/
>
> Everything is fine, as far as postfix is concerned: all email to
> marco at domain1.net goes in that mailbox, dovecot sees it, etc...
>
> Now I need to add sorting all incoming email in subfolders:
>
> mail from SOME_LIST to marco_domain1.net/SOMELIST/
> (lots of other rules for custom folders)
> all else to main inbox
>
> I have to do all this sorting with procmail for two reasons:
>
> - I want to have as little sw as possible on that server, and update
>  it semi-automatically, if possible only from the official
>  repositories: procmail has these characteristics
>
> - I want to reuse as is, with the smallest possible amount of
>  translation, filtering, etc, the very long and complicated
>  procmailrc files I have built over the years on several servers.
>
> My question is how do I have to modify (with a perl or similar script)
> the procmail rules so that they sort messages in maildir folders which:
>
> - are fully compatible with dovecot (and Squirrelmail)
> - (very useful, but not mandatory) can be viewed in categories and subcategories
>  from Squirrelmail:
>
> 	      personal/
> 			friends/
> 			family/
> 	      mailing_lists/
> 			postfix/
> 			dovecot/
> 			....
> 	      work/
>
> - *all* the messages, no matter how they were sorted on the server, can still
>  be downloaded with fetchmail from home
>
> Note that I am not asking anybody to write the script for me (if you
> want to share a ready one, of course, I'll be glad). I just need to
> know what is the exact syntax/ folder naming conventions I have to follow
> to make all I wrote above happen.
>
> TIA,
> 	Marco
>
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