I didn't realize that my auto-mailboxes patch would be useful for so many
other things... neat! Perhaps a more official request to include it is in
order? Are there reasons why someone might prefer *not* to have mailbox
autocreation? IIRC, I left an if(1) in the code to be replaced with just
such a config option or flag :-)
Aaron
On Thu, 6 Mar 2003, Paul J Stevens wrote:
> Matthew,
>
> Though I use postfix instead of sm, I run a similar setup as yours.
> Yes, you can tell dbmail-smtp to deliver messages to a specific folder.
> The -m
> switch does the trick.
>
> A typical dynamic procmail filter for mailinglists would be:
>
> :0
> * ^List-Id: \/.*
> {
> LISTNAME=`echo $MATCH|sed 's/<\([^\.]*\)\..*>.*/\1/'`
> :0: list.$LISTNAME
> | /usr/sbin/dbmail-smtp -m list/$LISTNAME
> }
>
> One caveat though: dbmail-smtp like dmail does not create mailboxes
> automagically. Unless you
> run a dbmail installation patched to do this. Vanilla 1.1 doesn't
> autocreate mailboxes.
>
>
>
> Matthew T. O'Connor wrote:
>
> >My current mail setup (not dbmail which I am still learning) uses
> >procmail as the LDA (is that the right term?). Sendmail calls it to
> >actually deliver the email to my mailboxes. I find this highly useful
> >as I have procmail sort my mail into all my different mailboxes, this
> >keeps high volume mailing lists in their respective folders etc... I
> >don't see how to do this using dbmail. Is there some way for procmail
> >to tell dbmail-smtp to put this message in a particular folder? Is
> >there some dbmail related program that procmail could call to do the
> >delivery to the database? UoW imap has a program called dmail which
> >procmail can call to deliver messages to mailbox formats it doesn't
> >understand, I use mbx (not mbox) mailboxes right now for performance
> >reasons.
> >
> >I don't want to have all my email delivered to my INBOX and sorted into
> >folders by a mail client such as evolution. I am constantly connecting
> >to my imap server from different locations and using different clients.
> >In any given day I might use squirrel mail, evolution, kmail and Outlook
> >Express, so I can't maintain message sorting rules in the mail client.
> >
> >So I need some solution for server based message sorting that happens at
> >delivery time.
> >
> >Thanks much,
> >
> >Matthew T. O'Connor
> >
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