Delivering email to Maildir PreINBOX

Paulo Matos paulo at matos-sorge.com
Wed Aug 19 21:42:34 UTC 2015


On 19/08/15 22:11, Pascal Volk wrote:
> 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.
>

How do I do that?

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

Thanks, I will take a look at Sieve.

Regards,
Paulo

>
> Regards,
> Pascal
>




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