[Dovecot] What's the best way to do this?
Hi,
Got a situation where I have a couple of mailing list subscriptions as well as system generated e-mails from my clients' computers sending me warning messages. (Along with my normal load of personal e-mail).
Does it make sense to set up virtual mailboxes (maildirs) one for each mailing list or group? Then using an IMAP client to subscribed only to the lists that I *want* to read? My biggest problem is that I have a blackberry and I don't want to get interrupted for non-critical e-mail.
Or is there a better solution?
TIA!
-Mikey
-- Michael Segel Principal MSCC 312 952- 8175 [M]
Michael Segel wrote:
My biggest problem is that I have a blackberry and I don't want to get interrupted for non-critical e-mail.
Well, this is one argument against the Crackberry... ;)
What I did for the company President here is write a small filter program which refuses to forward any message to the Blackberry account over a certain size. Of course, it was easy because we are running qmail/vpopmail and I only had to drop a line into his .qmail file. YMMV if you are using something else (especially if you have allowed your systems to become infected by Exchange/Bloatberry servers)... <ouch>
John
-- John Peacock Director of Information Research and Technology Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group 4501 Forbes Boulevard Suite H Lanham, MD 20706 301-459-3366 x.5010 fax 301-429-5748
On Monday 21 November 2005 11:48, John Peacock wrote:
Michael Segel wrote:
My biggest problem is that I have a blackberry and I don't want to get interrupted for non-critical e-mail.
Well, this is one argument against the Crackberry... ;)
Well, no. There are some automated messages that I want to get, like a server going down.
Then there are the messages from mailing lists like this, Informix, Derby, etc... that just aren't urgent....
Since I don't have a BES running, I'm using my cell provider to pull from my server using IMAP over an SSL. So the crackberry gets everything in my inbox.
My only mail server is Postfix. (Sorry I'm running a small consulting company.)
I was thinking of creating mail aliases for support, dovecot, bills, etc ...
I guess it is almost like creating folders and having dovecot or something automatically filter the mail to a specific folder. Then I could subscribe only to a single folder.
Can I do this easily within Dovecot?
TIA!
-Mikey
PS. If you haven't guessed, I'm really open to all suggestions and I'm still a newbie with dovecot so I don't know all of their filtering capabilities.
What I did for the company President here is write a small filter program which refuses to forward any message to the Blackberry account over a certain size. Of course, it was easy because we are running qmail/vpopmail and I only had to drop a line into his .qmail file. YMMV if you are using something else (especially if you have allowed your systems to become infected by Exchange/Bloatberry servers)... <ouch>
John
-- Michael Segel Principal MSCC 312 952- 8175 [M]
Michael Segel wrote:
My only mail server is Postfix. (Sorry I'm running a small consulting company.)
I haven't personally used the dovecot LDA (YET!), but you could run that and filter on the Precedence: header (most well-behaved list software sets that to list or bulk) or List-ID (seen in goofy list messages from MailMan). If you are storing your messages in maildir format, you could also use any of the other filtering LDA's out there (maildrop or procmail are commonly available), plus postfix has it's own content filter capabilities.
I would think it would be easiest to pick a filtering method and then forward a copy of "interesting" messages to another mailbox and have the blackberry pop that box only. Sorry if this is mostly armwaving...
HTH
John
-- John Peacock Director of Information Research and Technology Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group 4501 Forbes Boulevard Suite H Lanham, MD 20706 301-459-3366 x.5010 fax 301-429-5748
Michael Segel wrote:
I guess it is almost like creating folders and having dovecot or something automatically filter the mail to a specific folder. Then I could subscribe only to a single folder.
Can I do this easily within Dovecot?
Yes, with Dovecot LDA, please see http://wiki.dovecot.org/LDA
-- Tomi Hakala
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John Peacock
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Michael Segel
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Tomi Hakala