Sam Flint <harmonicnm7h@gmail.com> writes:
Gnus supports IMAP natively, and even ManageSieve. Use that, don't run a proxy, it's a lot easier. I know. I'm using dovecot because I'm getting mail from an extremely slow connection, so Gnus blocks the Emacs UI for several seconds, making Emacs unusable. Using a local server eliminates that problem.
On Thu, Aug 8, 2013 at 4:19 AM, Steffen Kaiser <skdovecot@smail.inf.fh-brs.de> wrote:
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On Thu, 8 Aug 2013, John Williams wrote:
in order to not filter the same message twice or re-filter messages, you've moved around manually?
That is not a problem. The filtering process works perfectly when I manually invoke dovecot-lda. My problem is that I have followed the instructions here:
and here:
http://wiki2.dovecot.org/LDA/Sendmail
and here:
but neither dovecot-lda nor LMTP seem to be triggered whenever I send email from my MUA (Gnus). At least, I *think* I have followed the instructions correctly. Would you like me to post my dovecot config again, and the relevant portion of sendmail.cf?
Thank you very much for your help, I truly appreciate it.
As Stan already pointed out: a local delivery takes place only, when the mail arrives via a MTA. offlineimap synchronizes two IMAP folders, there is no local delivery at your side at all. Hence, neither LDA nor LMTP is invoked.
So I see two ways:
- keep offlineimap to resync your local store back to the server and keep both in-sync.
Then you can: 1a) run offlineimap to get new messages from the upstream server and sync current local messages. 1b) remove the new ones from the local store and feed them _manually_ to the LDA or LMTP. Now the filtering takes place and they are re-added to the mail storage. 1c) maybe: re-run the process until no new messages got downloaded, in order to keep the server in-sync
- no need for server messages in-sync with local message store
2a) setup a local MTA that accepts your domain and drops messages via Dovecot LDA or LMTP. Then get the new messages via fetchmail on a regular basis and hand the messages over to the local MTA.
2b) use fetchmail in combination with Dovecot LDA/LMTP. No local MTA necessary.
fetchmail will see only messages in INBOX as far as I know. So no filtering on the server must take place.
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