[Dovecot] How to create rules?

[Romeo Theriault]

Thanks. I'm still a noob when it comes to building my own software  
and using cvs and such. What I need to do is pretty simple so I  
changed dovecot's mail storage format from mbox to Maildir, and I  
think I'll just have a small perl script running from cron, to check  
for what I'm looking for.

One question though: My perl script will check for the existence of a  
particular string in and email and if it finds it will send a new  
email and them move the old email into an IMAP folder called Old. I  
think this will work fine, but I noticed that dovecot seems to keep  
track of where the messages are through files called `dovecot- 
uidlist`. Will moving around these files on dovecot without updating  
these files screw it up?

Thanks,

Romeo

On Jul 12, 2006, at 3:06 PM, John Peacock wrote:

> Romeo Theriault wrote:
>> Hi, I have dovecot installed and working fine. I would like  
>> (server side) a rule runs on all messages and if it finds certain  
>> words in the message it will run a script which will send a new  
>> email.
>
> In order to use sieve with dovecot, you must
>
> 1) be running a very recent version (1.0.RC2 recommended)
> 2) build dovecot with deliver (--with-deliver)
> 3) build the sieve plugin out of cvs
> 4) configure dovecot to use the sieve plugin
> 5) create a sieve script for the user
> 6) configure your LDA to use dovecot's deliver
>
> You don't have to be running any special software to do #4; the  
> sieve scripts are normal textfiles which will be compiled when  
> deliver first attempts a deliver to that user.  See
>
> 	http://wiki.dovecot.org/LDA
>
> for more details...
>
> John
>
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