On 2011-12-19 10:45, Stephan Bosch wrote:
On 12/19/2011 10:27 AM, moozer wrote:
I am currently setting up an IMAP server for archiving purposes. The goal is to drag an email to the IMAP folder, and then have a server-side sieve script to put it in the right folder. [...] I notice this part: "plugin is intended to be used only by binaries: lda lmtp (we're imap)"
So the question is if it is possible to run sieve server-side sieve scripts on emails copied using IMAP.
Not directly. There is some standardization effort done to achieve something like that:
http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-sieve-imap-sieve-02
But this is not implemented so far.
This is the exact thing I was looking for. Too bad that I am ahead of my time :-)
Suggestions are most welcome.
What you can do is run the Sieve filter in some (in)cron job (or by means of some other trigger). For Dovecot v2.1 there is now a special sieve-filter command line tool to perform the filtering on a folder. However, it is not released yet.
For older Dovecot versions you can use this recipe to re-filter mail:
At first glance it looks like using dovecot as a generic IMAP server, fetch mail, run filters and ask the IMAP server to move the mail. It could work also.
Regards,
Stephan.
Thank you for a good answer. I will reevaluate my plan based on this.
moozer