[Dovecot] Using procmail with virtual users...

Timo Sirainen tss at iki.fi
Sat Oct 1 14:10:13 EEST 2005


On Wed, 2005-09-28 at 14:07 +0200, Arnaud Guiton wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> I've a working dovecot installation on my machine, using exim3, virtual
> users and maildirs.
> 
> I would like to add procmailrc rules for these (virtual) users, but i've not
> succeeded with that.
> The authentication is done with a passwd-file looking like this :
> testuser:password:uid:gid::/home/mail/testuser::chroot:maildir:/home/mail/testuser/Maildir/

Well, that's Dovecot's passwd-file which only dovecot-auth reads..

> i've put .procmailrc files in /home/mail/testuser/.procmailrc, but it this
> not taken into account, because the MTA never calls the procmail router as
> it resides after the dovecot one.
> 
> How is the proper way of using procmail with virtual user (and is it at
> least possible) ?

And procmail has no idea Dovecot even exists. This is anyway procmail's
problem, so maybe ask in some procmail list if no-one answers here.
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