No need for user shell access. Before switching to sieve, I made some email interface where users could turn on 'services' by sending an email to themselves.
-----Original Message----- To: dovecot@dovecot.org Subject: Re: Procmail with Dovecot
On 13.10.20 11:08, Dan Egli wrote:
Hey folks, here's a question. I want to enable procmail for the users so that they can have their incoming messages sorted info various folders and such regardless of MUA access or web access. I know I can set procmail to deliver to a maildir, but wouldn't that screw up dovecot's indexes? If it would, what can I do to ensure that the indexes stay correct?
Wouldn't it be better if you enabled Sieve and use that instead? procmail needs shell access (or a very sophisticated web-upload thingy to weed out any shell escapes from procmail) to work and a user can easily create loops or break their mail reception completely.
Sieve at least makes sure the syntax is correct before installing a ruleset.
Grüße, Sven.