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

[Bradley Rintoul]

This could be good.  I'd never looked into the LDA - I will study up on it.

Someone else was helping out here and I thought I'd shed some more light on what 
I'm doing here...

Let's  say someone has an account with Yahoo, for example.  My Python code is  
fetching email from the user's Yahoo! account and placing it into the  Dovecot 
Maildir storage for a particular user.  Now when the user  retrieves their mail, 
they are doing so using my Dovecot - my Dovecot  instance is acting as a proxy, 
of sorts...

Thanks for the responses!

(Is there an IRC channel?)



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From: Sven Hartge <sven at svenhartge.de>
To: dovecot at dovecot.org
Sent: Thu, October 25, 2012 11:07:26 AM
Subject: Re: [Dovecot] Creating Maildir and populating with emails via external 
Python process

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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