[Dovecot] sieve replace dot string for foldername

[Stephan Bosch]

On 4/10/2012 11:08 PM, Robert Schetterer wrote:
> Hi, i am playing about mail archive
>
> this is what allready works for me
>
> require
> ["variables","date","fileinto","mailbox","envelope","subaddress","regex"];
>
> # Extract date info
> if currentdate :matches "year" "*" { set "year" "${1}"; }
> if currentdate :matches "month" "*" { set "month" "${1}"; }
> if currentdate :matches "day" "*" { set "day" "${1}"; }
> if envelope :detail :matches "to" "*" { set "to" "${1}"; }
>
> if true {
>      fileinto :create "INBOX.${year}.${month}.${day}.${to}";
>      stop;
> }
>
> but ${to} may have a dot included, foldernames
> with dot are not allowed in my dove setup yet ( and i dont want to
> change it )
>
> i am looking for a way ( guess regex )
> for replace a dot  in string replaced by a space char
> on the fly

Hmm, no, I see no possibilities for that really. Sieve doesn't have such 
advanced string manipulation capabilities unfortunately.

You could use the vnd.dovecot.execute extension (extprograms plugin) for 
that, but I wouldn't call that a nice solution by any means.

Regards,

Stephan.