I am brand new to this whole "email" thing. I am looking at this article right now: http://www.tuxradar.com/content/get-started-fetchmail-procmail-and-dovecot
Thanks for the input! ________________________________ From: Tom Hendrikx <t...@whyscream.net> To: dovecot@dovecot.org Sent: Thu, October 25, 2012 12:41:24 PM Subject: Re: [Dovecot] Creating Maildir and populating with emails via external Python process On 25/10/12 21:13, Bradley Rintoul wrote: > This could be good. I'd never looked into the LDA - I will study up on it. > > Someone else was helping out here and I thought I'd shed some more light on >what > > I'm doing here... > > Let's say someone has an account with Yahoo, for example. My Python code is > > fetching email from the user's Yahoo! account and placing it into the > Dovecot > Maildir storage for a particular user. Now when the user retrieves their >mail, > > they are doing so using my Dovecot - my Dovecot instance is acting as a > proxy, > > of sorts... I'm intrigued by this. Why are you using some self-baked(?) python script to fetch the mail in stead of using ready-made components like fetchmail? Unless there's a special reason not to, try using the LDA (and fetchmail/getmail for that matter). This sounds exactly what you want: http://pyropus.ca/software/getmail/configuration.html#destination-mdaexternal -- Tom > > Thanks for the responses! > > (Is there an IRC channel?) > > > > ________________________________ > From: Sven Hartge <s...@svenhartge.de> > To: dovecot@dovecot.org > Sent: Thu, October 25, 2012 11:07:26 AM > Subject: Re: [Dovecot] Creating Maildir and populating with emails via > external > > Python process > > Bradley Rintoul <brint...@sbcglobal.net> wrote: > >> I'm using Dovecot to provide IMAP services for Thunderbird clients. >> The user's mail is stored in Maildir format and the individual emails >> which the user "receives" are actually downloaded and put into the >> Maildir "repository" using a Python email client (POP3 client). > >> I am trying to create the dovecot-uidlist file and maintain the "next >> UID" value within it, but I am having trouble with the UIDVALIDITY and >> the 128 bit mailbox global UID among other things. How can I "seed" a >> dovecot-uidlist file with these values..? > >> Sorry if the information is not much to go on, please let me know what >> more information you might need to help point me in the right >> direction. > > How about injecting the mails into the LDA. It will take care of proper > delivery without the need for your programm to know the internal > workings of dovecot. > > S° >
