Hi, On Tuesday, 15. July 2008, mouss wrote: > Tom Fernandes wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I currently use procmail without the deliver LDA but would like to switch > > to using deliver. I also would like to get away from procmail for various > > reasons. Otherwise I could use the procmail-patch from > > > > http://dovecot.org/pipermail/dovecot/2006-July/014656.html > > > > AFAICS. > > > > I don't want to use sieve because it's too limited > > one thing I'm lacking is variable expansion, something like: > > if header matches foostring-(.*), then deliver in folder bar.$1.
like in e.g. automatic folder creation for MLs - yup - makes sense. > > > and can't see a similar > > patch like the one for procmail available for maildrop. > > why would you need such a patch for maildrop? > > > What setup would I use for Postfix+maildrop+deliver? > > you can build maildrop without authlib if you don't want authdaemon. > > if you mailstore is "static/simple", you can then deliver directly with > maildrop. > > Otherwise, use the -m flag to specify the target folder. yup - as I'm using maildir, deliver only really helps for huge mailboxes. I did some experiments, read maildropfiter(5) a bit and found out that with the "to" statement you can deliver to an external program via a pipe which will be "deliver" in my case. That works so far. This is really cool :) ! thanks for the hint - I somehow thought it wasn't possible that easily, Tom
