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

[Alan Bates]

Sure - I looked at sieve, but as i understood it, i'm bypassing any LDA
stage, using getmail to deliver direct to the maildir.

i suppose i could use getmail to deliver to a holding maildir, then use an
LDA to filter and deliver that mail...

On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 4:48 PM, Seth Mattinen <sethm at rollernet.us> wrote:

> 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
>