Hello,
a couple of months ago, also thanks to help from this list, I set up postfix and dovecot for virtual domains on a Centos 4 remote server.
I have postfix set up to deliver all email for marco@domain1.net to
/var/mail/vhosts/marco_domain1.net/
Everything is fine, as far as postfix is concerned: all email to marco@domain1.net goes in that mailbox, dovecot sees it, etc...
Now I need to add sorting all incoming email in subfolders:
mail from SOME_LIST to marco_domain1.net/SOMELIST/ (lots of other rules for custom folders) all else to main inbox
I have to do all this sorting with procmail for two reasons:
I want to have as little sw as possible on that server, and update it semi-automatically, if possible only from the official repositories: procmail has these characteristics
I want to reuse as is, with the smallest possible amount of translation, filtering, etc, the very long and complicated procmailrc files I have built over the years on several servers.
My question is how do I have to modify (with a perl or similar script) the procmail rules so that they sort messages in maildir folders which:
are fully compatible with dovecot (and Squirrelmail)
(very useful, but not mandatory) can be viewed in categories and subcategories from Squirrelmail:
personal/ friends/ family/ mailing_lists/ postfix/ dovecot/ .... work/*all* the messages, no matter how they were sorted on the server, can still be downloaded with fetchmail from home
Note that I am not asking anybody to write the script for me (if you want to share a ready one, of course, I'll be glad). I just need to know what is the exact syntax/ folder naming conventions I have to follow to make all I wrote above happen.
TIA, Marco
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