[Dovecot] How to create .dovecot.sieve through IMAP?

[Timothy White]

On 06/03/06, Sergey A. Lipnevich <sergey at optimaltec.com> wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I suspect that the answer is "no way," but there's hope. I'm trying to
> set up a PHP application Ingo (part of Horde suite) to create the file
> <home>/.dovecot.sieve for the "advanced" LDA to do mail sorting. Because
> PHP is running under a Web server user, Ingo can't really write this
> file directly. My question is, is there any way for Ingo (or any other
> tool, for that matter) to create that file via IMAP protocol
> interaction? Horde authenticates users and "knows" login/password
> combination (that's how it accesses mail folders).
> Thank you!

>From my reading, it appears you need to be running another daemon on
the server. Cyrus has one, called timsieved iirc. Not sure how it
works, but I don't think dovecot has anything like it yet. Pity.

Hopefully someone will prove me wrong!

Tim
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