[Dovecot] Creating Maildir and populating with emails via external Python process

[Robert Schetterer]

Am 25.10.2012 21:13, schrieb Bradley Rintoul:
> This could be good.  I'd never looked into the LDA - I will study up on it.
> 
> Someone else was helping out here and I thought I'd shed some more light on what 
> I'm doing here...
> 
> Let's  say someone has an account with Yahoo, for example.  My Python code is  
> fetching email from the user's Yahoo! account and placing it into the  Dovecot 
> Maildir storage for a particular user.  Now when the user  retrieves their mail, 
> they are doing so using my Dovecot - my Dovecot  instance is acting as a proxy, 
> of sorts...
> 
> Thanks for the responses!
> 
> (Is there an IRC channel?)
> 

perhaps you could use parts from here

http://wiki.dovecot.org/HowTo/RefilterMail

> 
> 
> ________________________________
> From: Sven Hartge <sven at svenhartge.de>
> To: dovecot at dovecot.org
> Sent: Thu, October 25, 2012 11:07:26 AM
> Subject: Re: [Dovecot] Creating Maildir and populating with emails via external 
> Python process
> 
> Bradley Rintoul <brintoul at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> 
>> I'm using Dovecot to provide IMAP services for Thunderbird clients.
>> The user's mail is stored in Maildir format and the individual emails
>> which the user "receives" are actually downloaded and put into the
>> Maildir "repository" using a Python email client (POP3 client).
> 
>> I am trying to create the dovecot-uidlist file and maintain the "next
>> UID" value within it, but I am having trouble with the UIDVALIDITY and
>> the 128 bit mailbox global UID among other things.  How can I "seed" a
>> dovecot-uidlist file with these values..?
> 
>> Sorry if the information is not much to go on, please let me know what
>> more information you might need to help point me in the right
>> direction.
> 
> How about injecting the mails into the LDA. It will take care of proper
> delivery without the need for your programm to know the internal
> workings of dovecot.
> 
> S°
> 


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