[Dovecot] How to make dovecot-lda/deliver mark a message as seen

Stefan Piegsa s at s7p.de
Tue Aug 9 18:48:08 EEST 2011


On 08/08/2011 11:46 AM, Andrzej Adam Filip wrote:
> On 08/08/2011 09:43 AM, Stefan Piegsa wrote:
>> Thanks for your reply!
>>
>> On 08/08/2011 08:36 AM, Andrzej Adam Filip wrote:
>>> Have you considered using sieve for the task?
>>> [Using imap4flags extension]
>> Yes, but I think it's not the optimal solution for what I want to do:
>>
>> Basically, I don't want emails to be sent first to the MTA and then
>> again to dovecot to be stored in "Sent Messages".
>> So I made a script that puts an email received from the MTA by an
>> authenticated user into his local Maildir/Sent folder, using:
>> dovecot-lda -d $user -m Sent. Such emails should be marked as seen.
>>
>> Sieve would be an option if it were possible to have a global sieve
>> script that is always executed, not only when there's no user script.
>>
>> Best Regards,
>> Stefan
>>
> Could not you use sieve_before?
> http://wiki.dovecot.org/LDA/Sieve
>
> You may consider using sieve_after if you want to allow users to
> overwrite your choice of "self copy" handling.
>

sieve_after sounds interesting!

Is there a way to match the destination mailbox in a sieve script?
The email comes in by dovecot-lda -d $user -m Sent
Now the sieve script should somehow match the mailbox "Sent".





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