At 1PM -0500 on 30/01/13 you (Bret Martin) wrote: > I'm trying to mark several hundred thousand messages as read as they > are delivered via dovecot-lda(1). (I'm importing some mail from > another format for migration purposes.) > > I've been able to do this with Sieve, but it has the side effect that > the messages' received and saved dates are set to the current date, > and Apple Mail (at least) uses one of these to display the message > date. Without the Sieve filter in place, the dates are retained based > on the From_ line as I would like. > > Does anyone know of any way I can either > > - retain the date when delivering using Sieve? > > - systematically mark a specific set of messages as read *after* > delivery instead, perhaps with doveadm(1)? (even marking *everything* > read would work in this particular case. I couldn't find any way to > set flags with doveadm)
I would do this by scripting IMAP access. Perl's Mail::IMAPClient has explicit support for running dovecot/imap in preauth mode, so you don't even have to authenticate. Of course, you need a Dovecot user account with access to all the relevant messages. Ben
