[Dovecot] LDA directly to Maildir/cur

Scott Murman dovecot at segosha.net
Thu Sep 28 07:09:23 EEST 2006


>> i would like to simulate an automatic "mark as read"
>> feature
>> during procmail processing.  simplest way looks to be forcing  
>> delivery
>> directly to Maildir/cur instead of Maildir/new, but i suspect this  
>> may
>> screw up dovecot.
>
> If you deliver directly to Maildir/cur, and make sure you set the 'S'
> flag on the message, then to Dovecot, it will appear as if another
> Maildir-aware client read the message.

thanks for the help.  initial testing indicates this should work, and  
be more efficient than a client-side marking, but the procmail recipe  
won't be very elegant or easy to understand.  then again, they never  
are.

-SM-



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