per user procmail filtering and dovecot-lda

[James Nord]

HI Adam,

Thanks for the pointers on procmail.

As for why not letting procmail be the LDA then this is if procmail is 
the final lda then dovecots database/index will not be updated from what 
I read meaning there will be some performance issues.

/James

On 5/17/2017 7:26 PM, Adam Shostack wrote:
> So I'm confused as to why you're piping back from procmail to dovecot
> LDA, rather than having procmail be the final LDA.
>
> Why not use:
>
> :0 w
> * ^List-ID:.*jenkinsci-dev.googlegroups.com
> mailing-lists/jenkinsci-dev/
>
> (The trailing slash tells procmail that jenkinssci-dev is a maildir,
> not an mbox)
>
> Also, procmail is way out of date, no longer maintained, and there are
> "semi" known vulnerabilities that haven't been fixed.  See
> http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-ports&m=141634350915839&w=2 & the
> wikipedia page.
>
> Adam
>
> On Wed, May 17, 2017 at 06:10:13PM +0100, James Nord wrote:
> | Hi all,
> |
> | I recently migrated my system (postfix/Dovecot)from mbox to Maildir.
> |
> | Almost everything is working (phone and thunderbird show all my mail and
> | folders with mail)
> |
> | However I am stuck on my .procmailrc rules
> |
> |    # cat /etc/procmailrc
> |    SENDMAIL=/usr/sbin/sendmail
> |    SENDMAILFLAGS=-oi
> |    LOGFILE=/var/log/procmail.log
> |    ORGMAIL=${HOME}/Maildir/
> |    DEFAULT=${ORGMAIL}
> |    MAILDIR=${HOME}/Maildir/
> |
> |    DELIVER="/usr/lib/dovecot/deliver -d $LOGNAME"
> |
> |    # next line is to support user .procmailrc files
> |    INCLUDERC=$HOME/.procmailrc
> |
> |    :0 w
> |    | $DELIVER
> |
> |
> |    # cat ~/.procmailrc
> |
> |    :0 w
> |    * ^List-ID:.*jenkinsci-dev.googlegroups.com
> |    | $DELIVER -m mailing-lists/jenkinsci-dev
> |
> |    :0 w
> |    * ^List-ID:.*jenkinsci-users.googlegroups.com
> |    | $DELIVER -m mailing-lists/jenkinsci-users
> |
> | However dovecot-lda complains that the mailboxes
> | "mailing-lists/jenkinsci-users", "mailing-lists/jenkinsci-dev" etc do not
> | exist so delivers to the INBOX.
> |
> | Everything I have read says that the mailbox specified by -m is the name as
> | seen by the mail client, and this is what the client sees (see image).
> |
> |
> | I have tried changing the mailbox to INBOX/mailing-lists/...
> | inbox/mailing-lists/... but the same still happens.  So I am missing
> | something somewhere and my google foo is unfortunately letting me down this
> | time.
> |
> | Is there someone that can help me?
> |
> | (I'm not subscribed to the list so a CC to me would be appreciated)
> |
> | Regards
> |
> | /James
> |
>