Procmail with Dovecot

[Sven Hartge]

On 13.10.20 11:08, Dan Egli wrote:

> Hey folks, here's a question. I want to enable procmail for the users so 
> that they can have their incoming messages sorted info various folders 
> and such regardless of MUA access or web access. I know I can set 
> procmail to deliver to a maildir, but wouldn't that screw up dovecot's 
> indexes? If it would, what can I do to ensure that the indexes stay correct?

Wouldn't it be better if you enabled Sieve and use that instead? 
procmail needs shell access (or a very sophisticated web-upload thingy 
to weed out any shell escapes from procmail) to work and a user can 
easily create loops or break their mail reception completely.

Sieve at least makes sure the syntax is correct before installing a ruleset.

Grüße,
Sven.

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