On 08/21/2014 11:18 AM, Per Jessen wrote:
I don't see it like that :-) After receiving and filtering with Spamassassin, postfix delivers incoming mails to dovecot, dovecot (optionally) stores them in the maildir after they've been filtered by sieve, then updates the index. To read them, each client has to use IMAP. (clients include TB, roundcube, smartphones, outlook etc).
And *I* don't see it like *that* :-) I see it as fetchmail -> procmail -+-> spamassassin -+-> procmail -> INBOX | | | +-> SpamBox +-> lists, ARCHIVES or possibly Postfix -> Dot-Forward -> procmail -> (as above) So that dovecot is only concerned with the READING and not with the delivery. Strictly speaking its not the dovecot server that you are talking about but an axillary program.
The only thing that stops me letting Thundebird read all this, and yes late-model Thunderbird *can* handle both mbox and maildir, is that Thunderbird is on my workstation and not the mail server.
IMAP? Why are you running dovecot if it isn't as an IMAP server?
Did you not see my emphasis, the highlighted "*can*"? The point I was trying to make is that there are many things that can access the maildir. *CAN* *CAN* Not that I do, but that if it wasn't on a separate server box I *COULD*. The point being that Dovecot is not the *ONLY* software.
See above. Really, in my setup the only software that accesses/deals/fiddles with the maildir is dovecot.
Right. Please don't fall into the absolutist "my way is the only way because its the correct way" that Linda so often communicates. Your way is not my way. Your way is interesting and I may try it out some time. I'm prone to experiment[1]. That we can implement it all these different ways is great and typical of UNIX/Linus and probably what scares off a lot of smaller minded types who are sued to the vendor (being Microsoft in many cases) telling them how it should be. The old "You don't get fired for buying.." syndrome, letting the vendor rep make all the decisions about what hardware and software and configuration. Yes, UNIX/Linux is real scary! And guess what? My system might be different next month. Well not next month, I have surgery lined up, but I might do a massive reconfig over the new years, depending on what Santa brings. Thank you for explaining. Good to know. I'll bookmark this. [1] I haven't figured out Linda's booting without initrd, but then I reboot so rarely its not a serious concern. -- /"\ \ / ASCII Ribbon Campaign X Against HTML Mail / \ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org