[Dovecot] Undertanding what the lmtp_save_to_detail_mailbox actually does

[Steffen Kaiser]

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On Mon, 10 Feb 2014, Alan Chandler wrote:

> The problem I am facing is I can find no documentation about what 
> lmtp_save_to_detail_mailbox actually causes lmtp to actually do. Searching 
> the wiki refers to it only in the LMTP page.
>
> How should the detail of the address be formatted to specify a subdirectory - 
> can it be specified even? Should I be using it?

<uid>+Sent at ...
<uid>+users.<shared_uid>.SentNow at ...
<uid>+Archive.2013-01 at ...

I think, you must use mUTF7 for non-ASCII characters, you cannot use 
spaces and @ and many other characters impose problems. Also, which 
hierarchie separator you need to use, depends a little, just try with dots 
and the configured separator.

Also, for testing I advice to enable lda_mailbox_autocreate, in order to 
see when you did wrong and can try another spelling.

> Unfortunately my reading of the fileinto extension is that the destination 
> can only be a literal string and not a "computed" value based on the date.

that's not the problem with the variables extension. See
http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Pigeonhole/Sieve/Examples
and search for

fileinto "users/${name}";

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Steffen Kaiser
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