Should work fine. On 31.8.2011, at 22.19, Alex Cherniak wrote:
> Thanks, Timo. > Technically, it's not a Maildir, but my plan is to re-create one with > folders containing hard or symbolic links pointing to the real > storage. Is it going to be a problem? > > On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 10:52 AM, Timo Sirainen <[email protected]> wrote: >> On 31.8.2011, at 17.24, Alex Cherniak wrote: >> >>> I have a large existing read-only collection of mails packaged in >>> individual zip files as <rfc822 file>+<some additional info>. Is it >>> possible (and how difficult) to create a proprietary plugin (like >>> gzip) which will open a zip file, extract mail and pass it back to >>> Dovecot? Where do I start? If plugin is not the right approach, what >>> is? >> >> Is it otherwise a Maildir? If yes, you could base your code on the zlib >> plugin, or perhaps more easily you could use mail-filter plugin: >> http://dovecot.org/patches/2.0/mail-filter.tar.gz >> >> With mail-filter you can basically just put the messages through whatever >> program/script you want which gets the mail as input and outputs the wanted >> message body. I think the v2.0 mail-filter had some (potential?) bug, v2.1 >> mail-filter is anyway redesigned and should work perfectly. >> >>> Another question is how will this affect Dovecot performance and how >>> to avoid any significant degradation. >> >> I doubt it's going to be a problem. >> >> >
