Can sieve feed mails to a pipe like procmail can?

Stephan Bosch stephan at rename-it.nl
Thu Apr 13 10:04:01 EEST 2017


Op 4/13/2017 om 7:43 AM schreef Peter Kielbasiewicz:
> Currently I use procmail to filter mails according to specific tokens and trigger certain actions.
> For that I feed mails which match certain criteria to a pipe which then post processes the mail right when it arrives.
> From what I found I could use a workaround with sieve by storing mails somewhere and then work on those at certain intervals.
> But this is an awkward solution which causes delays and extra work for locking and post processing.
>
> I read that sieve be the more modern system but without the post-processing feature it is no replacement for procmail to me.

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


Regards,

Stephan.


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