[Dovecot] Server-side sieve for client-side copies

[Scott Silva]

on 7-28-2008 9:38 AM Daniel L. Miller spake the following:
> I know I could test this - but I'd rather ask first.  To my knowledge, 
> we haven't come up with a good server-side implementation for savings 
> copies of sent messages (by all means correct my ignorance in this 
> regard).  So the typical way is to enable it in clients like Thunderbird 
> (this prompted a whole discussion of how to save these messages without 
> sending them to the server multiple times).
> 
> My understanding is that sending a message from a client (use 
> Thunderbird for simplicity of this conversation) is performed via SMTP.  
> Saving a copy into a sent folder is performed via IMAP (hence the 
> multiple transfers to the server).  Now that I've laid a background - 
> let's make it Dovecot specific.  I don't know how "behind-the-scenes" 
> Dovecot performs the act of saving mail messages that it receives from 
> IMAP, instead of SMTP.  Specifically, if I'm using sieve filters via 
> deliver - can I setup a filter that will place mail copies to specific 
> recipients into specific subfolders?
Not easy, but set client to BCC yourself, and set filters for messages from 
you/to you.
Until they modify the IMAP spec, and then every mail client is updated, it 
just isn't going to be an easy fix.

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