Re: cyrus21-imapd: Tell cyrdeliver to deliver not only to INBOX
> Hello,
>
> yesterday I upgraded my email server at home from Woody to Sarge. The
> mails are stored on an cyrus imap server which got upgraded as well to
> cyrus21-imapd. The transition as described in the upgrading script
> worked pretty good and all mails and folders are still accessible.
> However cyrdeliver seem no longer to be able to put mail in mailboxes
> other than the INBOX. Postfix invokes Procmail for local delivery and
> the procmailrc sorts the mail into different folders on the imap
> server. This is a sample recipe from my .procmailrc:
>
> DELIVER='/usr/sbin/cyrdeliver -a jim -q jim '
> [...]
> :0
> * ^X-Spam-Status: Yes
> | formail -I "From " | $DELIVER -m spam
>
> The mailbox I want to to deliver to with this recipe is "user.jim.spam".
>
> This worked pretty well with the old cyrus-imapd. However, with
> cyrus21-imapd all mail appears in the INBOX, regardless of the folder
> it should have been delivered to. I tried all variations in the
> cyrdeliver syntax that I could imagine, but it didn't help at all.
>
> Does anybody have an idea?
>
> Cyrdeliver is suid to cyrus, so every user is permitted to deliver with
> it:
>
> jim@host:~$ l /usr/sbin/cyrdeliver
> -rwsr-x--- 1 cyrus users 186424 2005-03-03 16:22 /usr/sbin/cyrdeliver
>
> Thanks for any help,
> Jim
>
>
Hi.
I don't know about procmail and cyrus. But cyrus comes with a mail filter
language, "sieve." There's a bit of a learning curve, but it is quite
flexible. Check /usr/share/doc/cyrus21-doc/html/sieve.html
HTH
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