[Dovecot] Procmail versus Dovecot LDA

Timo Sirainen tss at iki.fi
Tue Aug 12 21:46:54 EEST 2008


On Aug 7, 2008, at 3:55 PM, Kenneth Porter wrote:

> --On Thursday, August 07, 2008 3:37 PM -0400 Timo Sirainen  
> <tss at iki.fi> wrote:
>
>> If you used Dovecot's deliver, the deny passwd should have worked,  
>> but
>> I've no idea about procmail.
>
> I'll note that I'm using procmail because of the ability to filter  
> and run SpamAssassin from it. Does the Dovecot LDA provide the  
> equivalent? (I know there's Sieve, though haven't looked into how  
> one uses it.) If so, how hard is it to migrate my procmailrc files?

Typically you'd run SpamAssassin first and Dovecot deliver after that.  
Sieve doesn't allow executing external binaries.

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