[Dovecot] Moving new email from the mail spool to the inbox

[Chris Wakelin]

Adrian Barker wrote:
> 
> That's right: we cannot change the way that we deliver email, at least
> in the short to medium term, so need to maintain compatibility with the
> UW IMAP server. If we do decide to write a plugin that copies new email
> from the mail spool to the IMAP inbox, is there any documentation on how
> to write plugins ? I could not find any on the wiki.
> 
> 
> Adrian Barker,
> University College London.

Another thought occurred to me. It needn't be a plugin as such, as it
just needs to run before the imap process proper - see
http://wiki.dovecot.org/PostLoginScripting. It could be something as
simple as a shell script doing (though with rather more safeguards):-

exim_lock /var/spool/$USER \
"cat /var/spool/$USER >> ~/mbox && rm /var/spool/$USER"
exec /path/to/dovecot/libexec/imap

though you could probably write a utility using c-client to do it properly.

Best Wishes,
Chris

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