Delivering email to Maildir PreINBOX

[Pascal Volk]

On 08/19/2015 10:45 PM, Paulo Matos wrote:
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> I have a running dovecot with:
> $ dovecot -n
> # 2.2.18: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf
> [...]
> I started to filter my email with imapfilter running on the same host as
> dovecot. I would therefore like to deliver email to a folder called
> PreINBOX so that imapfilter then sorts the email and ends up delivering
> only the useful email to INBOX.
> 
> How can I change the name of the inbox dovecot delivers to?
> 
> Best,
> 

You can't change the name of the INBOX - the INBOX is always the INBOX.
But you can choose the name of the target mailbox.

I don't know "imapfilter".
I'd use <http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Pigeonhole/Sieve> for mail filtering.


Regards,
Pascal