You can try my procmail patch posted on this list,

Ciao, Gerhard

On Sat, 16 Sep 2006, M. Fioretti wrote:

Hello,

a couple of months ago, also thanks to help from this list, I set up postfix and dovecot for virtual domains on a Centos 4 remote server.

I have postfix set up to deliver all email for marco@domain1.net to

/var/mail/vhosts/marco_domain1.net/

Everything is fine, as far as postfix is concerned: all email to marco@domain1.net goes in that mailbox, dovecot sees it, etc...

Now I need to add sorting all incoming email in subfolders:

mail from SOME_LIST to marco_domain1.net/SOMELIST/ (lots of other rules for custom folders) all else to main inbox

I have to do all this sorting with procmail for two reasons:

• I want to have as little sw as possible on that server, and update it semi-automatically, if possible only from the official repositories: procmail has these characteristics

• I want to reuse as is, with the smallest possible amount of translation, filtering, etc, the very long and complicated procmailrc files I have built over the years on several servers.

My question is how do I have to modify (with a perl or similar script) the procmail rules so that they sort messages in maildir folders which:

• are fully compatible with dovecot (and Squirrelmail)

• (very useful, but not mandatory) can be viewed in categories and subcategories from Squirrelmail:

    personal/
  	friends/
  	family/
    mailing_lists/
  	postfix/
  	dovecot/
  	....
    work/

• *all* the messages, no matter how they were sorted on the server, can still be downloaded with fetchmail from home

Note that I am not asking anybody to write the script for me (if you want to share a ready one, of course, I'll be glad). I just need to know what is the exact syntax/ folder naming conventions I have to follow to make all I wrote above happen.

TIA, Marco

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M. Fioretti wrote:

My question is how do I have to modify (with a perl or similar script) the procmail rules so that they sort messages in maildir folders which:

For storing a message to the maildir folder, just use the "some/path/to/mailbox/" format (see the trailing slash).

• *all* the messages, no matter how they were sorted on the server, can still be downloaded with fetchmail from home

Tell fetchmail to use IMAP. I don't see much benefit in such a setup, but hey, it's your choice.

Note that I am not asking anybody to write the script for me (if you want to share a ready one, of course, I'll be glad). I just need to know what is the exact syntax/ folder naming conventions I have to follow to make all I wrote above happen.

Can't get what are you asking about, tbh. Everything is just a standard setup...

Cheers, -jkt

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