Kenneth Porter wrote:

One could also use procmail as one's LDA. This is the standard configuration on Red Hat distros. What does the Dovecot LDA offer over procmail?

Most people consider SIEVE to be easier for humans to use to create filters. Plus dovecot-lda will automatically updated the Dovecot indexes.

John

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Curtis Maloney wrote:

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Also, I believe Procmail uses its own filtering language?

Your belief is justified.

I'm not sure on the specifics, but some grey beards I know said they prefer the safe-failure nature of Sieve.

Procmail goes at great length to ensure no data gets lost, including a number of fallbacks upon error.

On Tue, 2005-09-20 at 18:59 -0500, David Willoughby wrote:

On Tue, Sep 20, 2005 at 04:44:04PM -0700, Kenneth Porter wrote:

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One could also use procmail as one's LDA. This is the standard configuration on Red Hat distros. What does the Dovecot LDA offer over procmail? i use procmail to sort my maildir. everyting in Mail/ in my home directory is mail. but i can't seem to find a way to get it to even see mbox in Mail/. I want to be able to see mail in /var/mail/user and /home/user/Mail/.

If you tell Dovecot to look mboxes in Mail/ directory, it should find them:

default_mail_env = mbox:~/Mail:INBOX=/var/mail/%u