[Dovecot] Update Dovecot index files on maildrop delivery?

[Eduardo M KALINOWSKI]

On Sex, 15 Jan 2010, Kārlis Repsons wrote:
> On Friday 15 January 2010 12:20:05 Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote:
>> On Sex, 15 Jan 2010, Kārlis Repsons wrote:
>> > is there some easy way to inform Dovecot about a new delivery, which has
>> > happened after postfix invoked maildrop, so the index files would be
>> > updated?
>>
>> That's exactly the task for which dovecot deliver was made.
> But maybe you could also post a short info on how should deliver be called?
>
> I read that "The Dovecot LDA, called deliver, is a local delivery agent which
> takes mail from an MTA and delivers it to a user's mailbox, while keeping
> Dovecot index files up to date."
> However in my case maildrop seems to be in the place of deliver.  
> Would it work
> if maildrop had deliver called by xfilter with the options appended, then
> followed by "to /dev/null"?

I don't know maildrop, so I can't tell if this would work. But the  
idea is to use deliver instead of maildrop, unless you need something  
that only maildrop can do.

In this case, I'd leave things as they are and not worry about  
indexes. When the mail folder is opened next time dovecot will notice  
the new messages and update the indexes.



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Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
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