Re: destination/maildir: Manuals seem to use different standards / how to configure correctly?

"Gary R. Schmidt" <[email protected]>
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On 08/07/2018 23:35, Peter Nabbefeld wrote:
> 
> Hi Larry,
> 
> looking at the docs a second time (especially 
> https://wiki2.dovecot.org/HowTo/TriggerGetmailOnIMAPAccess), it seems 
> getmail doesn't use the maildir at all - it uses a script (probably sth. 
> like a pipe function) to deliver the mail directly to dovecot, so mail 
> will only be stored in the maildir folder by dovecot, I guess. Probably 
> time to just be happy.  ;-)
> 
Just use the .forward mechanism in Dovecot to fire up sieve.

Vague memory says that "dovecot-lda" is the thing to use, but RTFM, it's 
been a long time since I looked at Dovecot (I use Panada IMAP).

	Cheers,
		Gary	B-)
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