[Dovecot] Status of sieve-extdata?

[Stephan Bosch]

On 5/6/2014 1:01 PM, Jiri Bourek wrote:
>>
>> 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

This is another, much more powerful option:

http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Pigeonhole/Sieve/Plugins/Extprograms

Regards,

Stephan.