[Dovecot] Dovecot and Bogofilter

Matthias-Christian Ott ott at mirix.org
Mon Nov 10 08:44:58 EET 2008


Patrick Nagel wrote:
> Thorsten Vollmer wrote:
> > On Sun, 2008-11-09 at 22:39 +0100, Matthias-Christian Ott wrote:
> >> An other problem is that each mail needs to be initially classified and
> >> due to the fact that sieve is not able to execute external programmes,
> >> deliver has to do this task. I'm currently thinking of possibilities to
> >> implement this, so far I came up with the following:
> >>
> >>   1. Write a generic pipe plugin which can execute an arbitrary number of
> >>      programmes. The problem with this is that I'm not sure how to
> >>      integrate this is in Dovecot's configuration file. I thought of
> >>      something like this: pipe = prg1 | prg2
> > 
> > You do not need a plugin if you do the classification before the
> > delivery: MTA | classification | LDA
> 
> With postfix, just add bogofilter as transport to master.cf and make it the
> 'mailbox_transport'.

Does Postfix understand the pipe syntax? If so everything would be fine.

Regards,
Matthias-Christian


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