Janneke Nieuwenhuizen writes:
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> I have been running exim as a strictly forwarding mail server
>
> (service mail-aliases-service-type
> '(("postmaster" "janneke")
> ("janneke" "[email protected]")))
> (service exim-service-type (exim-configuration))
>
> pretty neat!
>
> After the freedom.nl debacle of blacklisting [eggs.]gnu.org I am now
> wondering how (easy it is) to add local storage and IMAP for personal
> use only. It seems to me that Exim also has Sieve builtin and looks at
> a user's ~/.forward file (with some magic -- why seems everything
> related to email so full of magic?), but that probably won't work/play
> well with IMAP? And for IMAP folders to be filtered using Sieve you
> probably need dovecot-pigeonhole to also add Sieve to Dovecot?
>
> I found some useful things on the interwebs but the documentation still
> got me wondering about the service configuration, especially the setup
> of dovecot with sieve. Would this work/be enough?
[..]
> The documentation talks about plugin-configuration, "the ManageSieve
> service", managesieve-notify-capabilities, managesieve-sieve-capability,
> are those needed and if so how and what might they be?
>
> It also says "...the Sieve interpreter supports by default", which
> suggests there could be different sieve servers (is a sieve server a
> MananageSieve server?), but there doesn't seem to be a
> [manage-]sieve-service-type ...I'm pretty puzzled.
[..]
> Any help much appreciated.
Today I found <https://poste.io/>; a docker-based solution to what I was
looking for, and more, and its repository
<https://hub.docker.com/r/analogic/poste.io/>.
This may just help as an inspiration for writing a guix system config
for it. Although it still wouldn't help with the cryptic (? at least to
me) guix documentation snippet above...
Greetings,
Janneke
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