On Wed, 2011-07-20 at 16:43 -0600, Chris Kottaridis wrote: > I am using Fedora 14. > > I setup my mail server with dovecot so I am now able to access my host > for email from other hosts within my local net. It's been very helpful > to have that. > > While I was able to add a dovecot mailer to the sendmail.cf file I was > never able to make it the local mailer. In the end I had to create > a .forward file and pipe the message through dovecot-lda. However, with > this limitation it only works for real user's with home directories that > would have a .forward file. > > Are there any good pointers that could give me the necessary details to > run dovecot-lda as the local mailer from sendmail which should be able > to allow me to support virtual mail users that don't have a home > directory with a .forward file ? > > A few weeks ago I played with this quite a bit, but never got the > sendmail.cf file quite right to use dovcot-lda as the local mailer. > > Also, I have sieve enabled in dovecot. Right now I have evolution up and > running on one machine all the time that does the filtering of incoming > messages into their folders. The rest of the machines don't apply any > filters. I'd like to generate a sieve file so that dovecot-lda does the > filtering when the email initially comes in. But, I don't want to have > to login to one specific machine and edit the sieve instructions every > time I want to make a change. > > So, I have manage sieve enabled, but as far as I can tell evolution > doesn't have a manage sieve client. I played with thunderbird a bit and > it seems it has a sieve extension that will access the manage sieve tool > to imap. But, I'd like to stick with evolution. > > Is there an evolution plugin that will allow client access to manage > sieve from evolution ? Not as far as I know. It's been requested more than once but there doesn't seem to be enough interest to get someone to work on it, which is a pity. Perhaps if more IMAP servers supported it that would change, but it's a chicken and egg situation. poc -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
