[Dovecot] thunderbird and subscriptions with sieve

[Robert Schetterer]

Am 01.09.2011 21:22, schrieb Kristen J. Webb:
> Hi All,
> 
> Thanks for all the responses!  While I like the idea
> of moving to dovecot 2.x for new features, it is
> not part of the ubuntu packages,

search list archive, there are ubuntu packs dove 2.x out there
in some repositories

i i.e recompile stuff from here
http://xi.rename-it.nl/debian/ on lucid works like charme

 so I'm going to
> wait.  In the end, I found deliver -s in postfix master.cf
> did the trick.  Still the problem with thunderbird not seeing
> the new folder until restart, but hey, mail client independence
> is what I'm after anyway ;)
> 
> Kris
> 
> On 8/31/11 7:32 PM, Timo Sirainen wrote:
>> On 31.8.2011, at 23.48, Kristen J. Webb wrote:
>>
>>> Is there any way to automatically add folders created by sieve
>>> (GNU Mailutils 2.1) to the subscriptions file for a user?
>>
>> You mean you're using Mailutils Sieve, not Dovecot Sieve? The only
>> reasonable solution I can think of is:
>>
>> Mailutils Sieve would have to subscribe to newly created folders
>> itself, maybe by patching it or if it supports running some script
>> then doing it that way. With Dovecot v2.0 it could run "doveadm
>> mailbox subscribe $folder", but with v1.2 you'd have to write your own
>> script.
>>
>> Any other solution would basically require always subscribing to all
>> folders, which kind of defeats their whole purpose.
>>
>>
> 


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