[Dovecot] Creating Maildir and populating with emails via external Python process

Sven Hartge sven at svenhartge.de
Thu Oct 25 21:06:17 EEST 2012


Bradley Rintoul <brintoul at sbcglobal.net> wrote:

> I'm using Dovecot to provide IMAP services for Thunderbird clients.
> The user's mail is stored in Maildir format and the individual emails
> which the user "receives" are actually downloaded and put into the
> Maildir "repository" using a Python email client (POP3 client).

> I am trying to create the dovecot-uidlist file and maintain the "next
> UID" value within it, but I am having trouble with the UIDVALIDITY and
> the 128 bit mailbox global UID among other things.  How can I "seed" a
> dovecot-uidlist file with these values..?

> Sorry if the information is not much to go on, please let me know what
> more information you might need to help point me in the right
> direction.

How about injecting the mails into the LDA. It will take care of proper
delivery without the need for your programm to know the internal
workings of dovecot.

S°

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Sigmentation fault. Core dumped.




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