[Dovecot] maildrop and multi-dbox

Pascal Volk user+dovecot at localhost.localdomain.org
Sun Feb 6 13:56:55 EET 2011


On 02/06/2011 10:36 AM Manfred Lotz wrote:
> Hi there,
> I'm using Dovecot 2.0.9-1 under Arch Linux.
> 
> Currently, I have Maildir configured, and I move all my emails into
> dovecot by using this sequence:
> 
> 1) cron starts fetchmail periodically under user manfred to collect my
> mails from various email accounts.
> 2) In ~/.fetchmailrc I have configured /usr/bin/maildrop as MDA.
> 3) In ~/.mailfilter (used by maildrop) I have extensive filtering in
> place and call bogofilter (by using xfilter) to classify spam mails.
> 
> This works fine so far. Now I'd like to migrate to dovecot's new format
> multi-dbox.
> 
> My question now: Is it correct that then I cannot longer use
> maildrop and would need to switch do dovecot-lda?
> 

Yes, only dovecot-lda and Dovecot's lmtp are able to store messages in
mailboxes using dbox format. But both can use the sieve plugin for mail
filtering.


Regards,
Pascal
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