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

[Stan Hoeppner]

On 10/25/2012 2:13 PM, Bradley Rintoul wrote:

> 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...

There are already a gazillion email services that do mailbox
consolidation--the term for what you're attempting.  Why are you
reinventing the wheel?  Must be a family and the dog project...

A quick browse of your Wordpress blog confirms such.  It also explains
why you wrote code to create maildir files from scratch.  Only a
programmer assumes that the first path to a solution is to write new code.

A system administrator on the other hand, most of us here, Google's for
suitable FOSS, then looks in his distro repos for it, and builds from
source if a package isn't available.  We only script when out of Elmer's
and duct tape. ;)

-- 
Stan