[Dovecot] General approach question - am I doing this the right way?

[Seth Mattinen]

Alan Bates wrote:
> Quick outline of my current working setup:
> 
> I'm running dovecot 1.0.5 as an IMAP mail server on my ubuntu home server,
> which i connect to with my phone and several other machines to check my mail
> etc.
> 
> i use getmail to collect mail from my various pop accounts. getmail filters
> the mail using spamassassin via a Filter_external, before moving it to my
> Maildir on the home server.
> 
> Then when I connect to the home server from my various machines, IMAP
> manages the status of all the mail, so unread messages are common etc.
> 
> All works very nicely. However I'd like to fix a minor annoyance...
> 
> ...Spamassassin marks mail as SPAM but the mail client has to do the job of
> moving it to the Junk folder. I'd like the mail to be filtered on the home
> server on receipt.
> 

Sieve can do that.

http://wiki.dovecot.org/LDA/Sieve

~Seth