[Dovecot] Moving new email from the mail spool to the inbox

[Adrian Barker]

Thanks for replying. We cannot easily change the way we deliver email,
as we have over 30,000 users, who use a mixture of imap, pop and Unix
email clients, so we have to continue to deliver email to a central mail
spool. The MTA that we run is Exim, which has the flexibility to deliver
into the 'Inbox', but we need to remain compatible with non-IMAP mailers.


Adrian Barker,
University College London.


Andy Shellam wrote:
> Hi Adrian,
> 
> I'm thinking this is more of an issue with your MTA, as usually that's
> responsible for delivering into the mailbox's Inbox.
> 
> You might want to look at Dovecot's LDA, "deliver"
> (http://wiki.dovecot.org/LDA).
> Deliver takes an e-mail piped from your MTA, with appropriate options on
> the command-line, and delivers it into the relevant mailbox correctly.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Andy.
> 
> Adrian Barker wrote:
>> We are considering switching from the Washington UW IMAP server to
>> Dovecot for performance reasons, but we make use of the feature in the
>> UW server that automatically moves new email from the mail spool to the
>> IMAP INBOX. Has anyone implemented this in Dovecot, or considered
>> implementing it ? We have a large number of users, so cannot easily
>> change the way that we deliver email.
>>
>>
>>
>>   
> 


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