Re: [Dovecot] Saving Sent Messages to Sent Folder

2010-03-05 Thread Charles Marcus
On 2010-03-05 8:43 AM, Timo Sirainen wrote: > With v2.0 you can do basically everything as external plugin. Even > managesieve no longer requires patching Dovecot. > > LDA "talks" to SMTP server by calling sendmail binary. That's kind of > ugly. v2.0 actually has SMTP client support, so maybe I sh

Re: [Dovecot] Saving Sent Messages to Sent Folder

2010-03-05 Thread Timo Sirainen
On Fri, 2010-03-05 at 06:08 -0500, Charles Marcus wrote: > Not to belabor the point, but the dovecot LDA is already talking to the > SMTP server in one direction... this is why I proposed something as > simple as possible, a 'LSA proxy'... just enough to make sure the > message is accepted for del

Re: [Dovecot] Saving Sent Messages to Sent Folder

2010-03-05 Thread Charles Marcus
On 2010-03-05 4:59 AM, Ed W wrote: > Perhaps a simple case of adding a flag when saving into a folder > would mark the message as being required to be sent onwards? Way to error-prone for my taste. What about the luser that accidentally drops 5000 messages in there ... no thanks... ;) > The oth

Re: [Dovecot] Saving Sent Messages to Sent Folder

2010-03-05 Thread Ed W
On 05/03/2010 10:10, Timo Sirainen wrote: On Fri, 2010-03-05 at 09:59 +, Ed W wrote: MUA would have to support both of those URLAUTH and BURL extensions, so that it can register a temporary URL on the IMAP server, then connect to SMTP server and give that URL to BURL command (instead of

Re: [Dovecot] Saving Sent Messages to Sent Folder

2010-03-05 Thread Charles Marcus
On 2010-03-05 5:10 AM, Timo Sirainen wrote: > Well, I'm not very happy about the idea of IMAP server sending messages > to SMTP server either.. :) Not to belabor the point, but the dovecot LDA is already talking to the SMTP server in one direction... this is why I proposed something as simple as p

Re: [Dovecot] Saving Sent Messages to Sent Folder

2010-03-05 Thread Timo Sirainen
On Fri, 2010-03-05 at 09:59 +, Ed W wrote: > > MUA would have to support both of those URLAUTH and BURL extensions, so > > that it can register a temporary URL on the IMAP server, then connect to > > SMTP server and give that URL to BURL command (instead of sending the > > mail with DATA comman

Re: [Dovecot] Saving Sent Messages to Sent Folder

2010-03-05 Thread Ed W
On 04/03/2010 15:47, Timo Sirainen wrote: On Thu, 2010-03-04 at 10:05 -0500, Charles Marcus wrote: On 2010-03-04 9:32 AM, Timo Sirainen wrote: LEMONADE group solved this with IMAP URLAUTH (RFC 4467) and SMTP BURL (RFC 4468) extensions. The idea is basically (copy&pasting from RFCs):

Re: [Dovecot] Saving Sent Messages to Sent Folder

2010-03-04 Thread Timo Sirainen
On Thu, 2010-03-04 at 11:44 -0500, Charles Marcus wrote: > Last ditch effort/comment - maybe a 'dovecot LSA proxy' would be useful > for more than just this? But you never answered as to whether or not > such a thing is even remotely feasible, much less doable in the real > world... Sure everythin

Re: [Dovecot] Saving Sent Messages to Sent Folder

2010-03-04 Thread Charles Marcus
On 2010-03-04 11:44 AM, Charles Marcus wrote: > No worries... apparently this is completely doable using postfix, > dovecot, dovecot's LDA, and sieve... not quite as simple as just > defining a new 'dovecot LSA proxy', but still doable. The downside to this is, anyone doing this will have to maint

Re: [Dovecot] Saving Sent Messages to Sent Folder

2010-03-04 Thread Charles Marcus
On 2010-03-04 10:47 AM, Timo Sirainen wrote: > MUA would have to support both of those URLAUTH and BURL extensions, > so that it can register a temporary URL on the IMAP server, then > connect to SMTP server and give that URL to BURL command (instead of > sending the mail with DATA command). > > S

Re: [Dovecot] Saving Sent Messages to Sent Folder

2010-03-04 Thread Timo Sirainen
On Thu, 2010-03-04 at 10:05 -0500, Charles Marcus wrote: > On 2010-03-04 9:32 AM, Timo Sirainen wrote: > > LEMONADE group solved this with IMAP URLAUTH (RFC 4467) and SMTP BURL > > (RFC 4468) extensions. The idea is basically (copy&pasting from RFCs): > > > >C: RCPT TO: > >S: 250 2.1.5 r..

Re: [Dovecot] Saving Sent Messages to Sent Folder

2010-03-04 Thread Charles Marcus
On 2010-03-04 10:16 AM, Steffen Kaiser wrote: >> Anyway, thanks for the responses... at least your first suggestion >> is something I can for myself, but it isn't something I'd like to >> support in an enterprise - at least not unless/until Thunderbird >> gets full support for Group Polices (and th

Re: [Dovecot] Saving Sent Messages to Sent Folder

2010-03-04 Thread Charles Marcus
On 2010-03-04 10:24 AM, Steffen Kaiser wrote: > If I understand sender_bcc_maps correctly, you can configure my first > suggestion straight forward. > > sender_bcc_maps: > > m...@example.comme+s...@example.com > > Then pass the detail to deliver's "-m" option, which is the default > mailbox

Re: [Dovecot] Saving Sent Messages to Sent Folder

2010-03-04 Thread Steffen Kaiser
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, 4 Mar 2010, Charles Marcus wrote: Right - which is why I started this thread as exploring the possibility of some kind of 'submission proxy' service that would work with postfix's submission service. I do as well. If I understand sender_b

Re: [Dovecot] Saving Sent Messages to Sent Folder

2010-03-04 Thread Charles Marcus
On 2010-03-04 10:09 AM, Steffen Kaiser wrote: > Configure postfix to add the BCC to all messages in the MSA or all > authentificated or however you can identify your users apart others. Right - this is what is being discussed now... >>> 2) you know that, if to send the message failed, the message

Re: [Dovecot] Saving Sent Messages to Sent Folder

2010-03-04 Thread Steffen Kaiser
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, 4 Mar 2010, Charles Marcus wrote: Anyway, thanks for the responses... at least your first suggestion is something I can for myself, but it isn't something I'd like to support in an enterprise - at least not unless/until Thunderbird gets full

Re: [Dovecot] Saving Sent Messages to Sent Folder

2010-03-04 Thread Charles Marcus
On 2010-03-04 10:11 AM, Steffen Kaiser wrote: >> something purely server side that just works regardless of the MUA. Of > > That means: SMTP. Right - which is why I started this thread as exploring the possibility of some kind of 'submission proxy' service that would work with postfix's submissio

Re: [Dovecot] Saving Sent Messages to Sent Folder

2010-03-04 Thread Steffen Kaiser
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, 4 Mar 2010, Charles Marcus wrote: 'sending messages in background', not for letting the *server* pick them You could put that mailbox on the IMAP server, probably. There the server can pick them up. something purely server side that just

Re: [Dovecot] Saving Sent Messages to Sent Folder

2010-03-04 Thread Steffen Kaiser
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, 4 Mar 2010, Charles Marcus wrote: Interesting, and yes, apparently this would suffice as a workaround for individual users, but imo the less configuring that needs to be done *in the client* the better - most importantly, there is less chanc

Re: [Dovecot] Saving Sent Messages to Sent Folder

2010-03-04 Thread Charles Marcus
On 2010-03-04 9:32 AM, Timo Sirainen wrote: > LEMONADE group solved this with IMAP URLAUTH (RFC 4467) and SMTP BURL > (RFC 4468) extensions. The idea is basically (copy&pasting from RFCs): > >C: RCPT TO: >S: 250 2.1.5 r...@gryffindor.example.com OK. >C: BURL imap://ha...@gryffindor.exa

Re: [Dovecot] Saving Sent Messages to Sent Folder

2010-03-04 Thread Timo Sirainen
On Thu, 2010-03-04 at 08:32 -0500, Charles Marcus wrote: > There was another thread (it has come up at least a few times in the > past few years I've been lurking) on the postfix list about having some > kind of automatic 'Save to Sent' option to avoid the users mail client > from having to upload

Re: [Dovecot] Saving Sent Messages to Sent Folder

2010-03-04 Thread Charles Marcus
On 2010-03-04 8:56 AM, Steffen Kaiser wrote: > On Thu, 4 Mar 2010, Charles Marcus wrote: > > Some MUAs have a server-side outbox. Yes, but most clients don't directly support them. I'm talking about something that can be used in the enterprise, without requiring user intervention, aside from a *

Re: [Dovecot] Saving Sent Messages to Sent Folder

2010-03-04 Thread Charles Marcus
On 2010-03-04 8:44 AM, Steffen Kaiser wrote: >> Given: Postfix can be configured to use the Dovecot LDA for delivering >> mail incoming. > And that's all what's needed. > > Configure your postfix to honor subaddresses, IMHO, it's seperated by > "+" in postfix, and pass it as argument of "-m" opti

Re: [Dovecot] Saving Sent Messages to Sent Folder

2010-03-04 Thread Steffen Kaiser
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, 4 Mar 2010, Charles Marcus wrote: Some MUAs have a server-side outbox. Store anything therein, and the server picks up the messages. To/CC/BCC is taken from the message headers. You can implement this: a) via a Dovecot plugin, that trigg

Re: [Dovecot] Saving Sent Messages to Sent Folder

2010-03-04 Thread Charles Marcus
On 2010-03-04 8:32 AM, Charles Marcus wrote: > My question is simply, why wouldn't it be possible to create a Dovecot > LSA ('submission agent'), that could be defined in postfix's master.cf > file, Oh - and by 'LSA', I didn't mean to suggest you should architect a complete 'smtp listener'. I'm th

Re: [Dovecot] Saving Sent Messages to Sent Folder

2010-03-04 Thread Steffen Kaiser
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, 4 Mar 2010, Charles Marcus wrote: Given: Postfix can be configured to use the Dovecot LDA for delivering mail incoming. And that's all what's needed. Configure your postfix to honor subaddresses, IMHO, it's seperated by "+" in postfix, a