[Dovecot] Status of sieve-extdata?

[Jiri Bourek]

>
> It is not dead, but I haven't seen much interest for it either.

Well I was thinking about switching from dovecot-lda to LMTP and use the 
extdata plugin to check whether the message should go through spamc (via 
extprograms filter extension). All that in sieve_before script

That proved problematic though. Sieve is unable to use pgsql as data 
source, so I needed to go for proxy which in turn needed to make dict 
socket world writable (out of curiosity, is there a way to run second 
dict service with different dictionaries?)

After some more testing I found out that I'm unable to come up with 
working dictionary definition - username_field passes username as one 
value (whereas I have user and domain parts in different tables.) Tried 
using the fields {} section but that seems unusable as well, because 
extdata uses priv/something pattern and fields section requires you to 
use $variable which is - I assume - taken from pattern like this: 
priv/something/$variable

(I may be mistaken here, as hard as I tried, I was unable to find any 
documentation on how that map {} definition should look like)

Anyway, I already have some scripts that convert sieve settings stored 
in database into .dovecot.sieve file so I'll take care of running spamc 
this way

>
> Anyway, I quickly made a v0.4 version:
>
> http://hg.rename-it.nl/pigeonhole-0.4-sieve-extdata/

Thank you very much, sorry I won't use it in the end.