[Dovecot] Performing an action on mail receipt

[Stephan Bosch]

Andrew Beverley schreef op 13-5-2014 15:53:
> Dear all,
>
> I would like to perform an action for certain users each time a mail
> arrives via LMTP. I would like to send an email notification to an
> external email address when new mail has arrived for certain users
> (note: not a forward).
>
> I am assuming that creating my own plugin using the existing "notify"
> plugin is the way to go. However, before I go down that route, I'd like
> to check that is the best approach?

This should provide what you need:

http://sieve.info/
http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5435
http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5436

http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Pigeonhole

Regards,

Stephan.