Hi Eric,
As far as I learned it is never a good idea to copy (or delete) messages
directly in the Maildir if you use dovecot.
I had a script deleting old mails from a clients Maildir running via cron.
The first day the script deleted old messages, the client could not access the
last listpage from squirrelmail.
I think the dovecot- index files where irritated because of missing files.
At least you would have to delete the dovecot-files in the concerned directory
(they will be rebuilt)
Andreas
Am Donnerstag, 8. Juli 2010 04:18:51 schrieb Eric Shubert:
> Rajesh M wrote:
> > hi eric
> >
> > when the email arrives in the spam box its headers contained the
> > "delivered to" email id in the header so my script will know where to
> > which email id the message is to be delivered. so my concern about bcc is
> > resolved.
> >
> > my second question is as such
> > which would be better
>
> Define better. ;)
>
> > Simply move the email from the "centralized spambox" to the inbox of that
> > email id
> > Or use the qmail-queue program to reroute the message back to the queue
> > for delivery.
>
> As usual, there's more than one way.
>
> > i don't want the email time stamps changed during this process.
>
> Which time stamps are you referring to?
>
> On further thinking about this, I wouldn't do either. If you have
> dovecot installed, I would use dovecot's deliver program. Otherwise, I'd
> use the maildrop program. You should realize though that at some point
> dovecot's lda (deliver) is likely going to replace maildrop. With either
> program, I don't expect you'd need to do any parsing of the message in
> your script - just pass it on to the lda. I could be wrong about this
> though.
>
> You could move the file to the appropriate inbox yourself and I believe
> that would work, but using the lda would be 'better'. The lda really
> should know what's going into the mailbox, for indexing and quota purposes.
>
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