IMAP forward boxes

[Andre Dietrich]

Hi again,

sorry for the disturbance.

I originally came from courier-imap and missed the rich set of 
dovecot-plugins (http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Plugins). That's what I've 
been looking for.

I think snarf or notify will help me.
Thx.

Andre

On 24.07.2014 16:01, Andre Dietrich wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> since a few weeks I'm experimenting with some "IMAP forward boxes", but
> I didn't find a satisfactory solution yet.
>
> Target function is a directory structure like following in a shared mailbox:
>
> /intern/users/fred
> /intern/users/ted
> /intern/users/alice
>
> The idea is, that a mail, moved to the directory "/intern/users/fred"
> via IMAP-client will be forwarded to "fred at test.domain" without
> modifying the mail (except the header line "delivered to:").
>
> So if you get a mail in your inbox and want fred to answer it, you
> drag'n'drop it to /intern/users/fred. Fred gets the mail in his inbox
> and can answer it.
>
>
> To share all inboxes, to drop mails directly to them, is not an option,
> because I don't want everybody to see all other inboxes mails. Only to
> apply "-w-" ACL rights isn't an option either, because it seems to
> irritate the mail clients.
>
>
> Some month ago I had a partially working solution using a cron bash
> script. The script read the mails in the cur and new folders, processed
> the folders path and passed it to sendmail. It's ok, but it has to run
> quite often to get an adequate forwarding time and on sendmail errors
> mails got lost without any notification.
>
> It would be nice to have a dot-forward file in this subfolder (like in
> the qmail mailbox root), which is processed by dovecot when a mail is
> dropped in.
>
>
> Is it possible to solve this with a sieve script, a dot-forward file, or
> something similar ?
>
>
> I'm grateful for all solutions / ideas ! thx!
>
>
> Andre
>