[Dovecot] Undertanding what the lmtp_save_to_detail_mailbox actually does

[Alan Chandler]

On 11/02/14 07:41, Steffen Kaiser wrote:
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> On Mon, 10 Feb 2014, Alan Chandler wrote:
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>> 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.
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>> How should the detail of the address be formatted to specify a 
>> subdirectory - can it be specified even? Should I be using it?
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> <uid>+Sent at ...
> <uid>+users.<shared_uid>.SentNow at ...
> <uid>+Archive.2013-01 at ...
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> 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.
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> Also, for testing I advice to enable lda_mailbox_autocreate, in order 
> to see when you did wrong and can try another spelling.

Thanks - just what I needed to know.

I was about to set up an experiement, but I have to get postfix setup 
first (as a vehicle for delivering mail to lmtp) and there are aspects 
of that that I haven't got nailed yet.

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>> 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.
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> that's not the problem with the variables extension. See
> http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Pigeonhole/Sieve/Examples
> and search for
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> fileinto "users/${name}";
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Brilliant - even better.  I had searched for quite some time looking for 
that and hadn't found it.

Thanks

Alan Chandler