Andrzej Adam Filip <AnFi@onet.eu> wrote:

"Stefan Piegsa" <s@s7p.de> wrote:

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Hello everybody,

I am using dovecot 2.0.13 and have a special case here in which I want a mail that is delivered locally with dovecot-lda to be marked as "seen".

In dovecot 1.1.7 I succeeded to achive this, by modifing deliver.c so that upon adding a -S switch to the command arguments, the flag MAIL_SEEN was added to the call of mailbox_copy(). This seemed to work pretty good.

With the new version, i tried to do something similar by selectively adding mail_update_flags(ctx.src_mail, MODIFY_ADD, MAIL_SEEN); just before the call of mail_deliver(), whenever the -S argument is given.

But this does not work. What is wrong?

Is there a better way to set MAIL_SEEN for a locally delivered mail? I would prefer a method that does not require to mess around in the dovecot sources. :-)

Thanks in advance & Best Regards, Stefan

Have you considered using sieve for the task? [Using imap4flags extension]

http://wiki.dovecot.org/LDA/Sieve #v+ if address ["Return-Path"] ["my_address@my_domain.com"] { setflag "\\seen"; } #v-

I think such behavior may be handled by script(s) specified via sieve_before or sieve_after. I would recommend using sieve_after to allow users' to override default handling.

http://wiki.dovecot.org/LDA/Sieve/Dovecot

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