[Dovecot] Execution of external commands from Pigeonhole sieve

[Timo Sirainen]

On Thu, 2010-09-16 at 11:50 -0300, Andrés Yacopino wrote:
> Does anybody knows if there are some method to call an externall command
> from sieve? Is xexec plugin is what i am looking for? Is it avaiable for
> Dovecot 1.2?

It wouldn't be too difficult to write a plugin that triggers some
external command calling when e.g. saving a message to some mailbox or
something..

> I want to call ripmime from sieve to save attchments from mails in a
> user account.

But this is much more difficult. Just do it before deliver is run.