[Dovecot] Refiltering mails without loosing flags

[Stephan Bosch]

On 4/28/2012 6:07 PM, Dieter Knopf wrote:
> 2011/12/12 Stephan Bosch<stephan at rename-it.nl>:
>
>> Since last week, the new sieve-filter command line tool, which is intended
>> for just such a task, is part of the normal compile output for Pigeonhole
>> 0.3.x for Dovecot v2.1. Unfortunately, it is not released yet, so I guess
>> you're stuck with your old getmail-based solution for now.
>>
>> The tool is still experimental and I must say that I have not tested the
>> preservation of flags for some time and many changes were performed since
>> then. I will verify that later today. Also, the interaction with the new
>> editheader extension needs attention.
> Is there any update about that? Would be really nice to have an nice
> and easy way
> like with procmail. Just via command line not via getmail/imap/....

I didn't receive much feedback so far, so you may very well encounter 
some bugs. But I did test flag preservation just now and that just 
works. Pigeonhole v0.3.0 is released and contains all you need.

Just experiment with it a bit before you start using it for real mail.

Regards,

Stephan.