[Dovecot] Mail delivery to subfolders via address extension, and prefered lda method

Timo Sirainen tss at iki.fi
Sat Feb 25 02:47:05 EET 2012


On 24.2.2012, at 18.26, Micha Krause wrote:

> I want to deliver mails directly to subfolders, based on address extensions.
..
> I was able to reproduce this with exim and dovecot-lda:
> 
>  command = /usr/lib/dovecot/dovecot-lda -e -m "INBOX.${substr_1:$local_part_suffix}"
> 
> 
> But I was wondering if I could do this within dovecot, which would enable me to use
> LMTP instead of dovecot-lda.

lmtp_save_to_detail_mailbox = yes

> Which brings me to my second question:
> 
> Which method is "better" for dovecot, lda or LMTP?

LMTP is often easier to setup and faster.



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