Alan Schmitt alan.schmitt@polytechnique.org writes:
This is the crux of my question, I guess. Right now I don't deliver any mail, but use offlineimap to keep a local imap server (dovecot) in sync with a remote one. So my questions are: 1. Can I use dovecot's sieves if I don't deliver mail? 2. If not, how can I hook up offlineimap and dovecot so that mail is delivered instead of synchronized?
Alan, you can use sieve with dovecot in an offline imap setup.
All you have to do is compile sieve into dovecot:
wget http://pigeonhole.dovecot.org/releases/2.2/dovecot-2.2-pigeonhole-0.4.2.tar....
untar it
cd /usr/local/src/dovecot-2.2-pigeonhole-0.4.2/
./configure --prefix=/usr/local/Cellar/pigeonhole/0.4.0 --with-dovecot=/usr/local/opt/dovecot/lib/dovecot make && make install
I did this on a Macbook with dovecot installed from hombrew.
Whenever imap process is launched by my mail client it automatically sorts my INBOX based on sieve rules.
I can also do this manually:
sieve-filter -e -W -v -C -u $USER ~/Messages/dovecot.sieve 'INBOX'
Hope that is of some help.
Damon