Hi,

On Tuesday, 15. July 2008, mouss wrote:

Tom Fernandes wrote:

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Hello,

I currently use procmail without the deliver LDA but would like to switch to using deliver. I also would like to get away from procmail for various reasons. Otherwise I could use the procmail-patch from

http://dovecot.org/pipermail/dovecot/2006-July/014656.html

AFAICS.

I don't want to use sieve because it's too limited

one thing I'm lacking is variable expansion, something like:

if header matches foostring-(.*), then deliver in folder bar.$1.

like in e.g. automatic folder creation for MLs - yup - makes sense.

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and can't see a similar patch like the one for procmail available for maildrop.

why would you need such a patch for maildrop?

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What setup would I use for Postfix+maildrop+deliver?

you can build maildrop without authlib if you don't want authdaemon.

if you mailstore is "static/simple", you can then deliver directly with maildrop.

Otherwise, use the -m flag to specify the target folder.

yup - as I'm using maildir, deliver only really helps for huge mailboxes.

I did some experiments, read maildropfiter(5) a bit and found out that with the "to" statement you can deliver to an external program via a pipe which will be "deliver" in my case. That works so far.

This is really cool :) !

thanks for the hint - I somehow thought it wasn't possible that easily,

Tom