[Dovecot] Dovecot's maildir format / is rm safe

Is it considered 'safe' to delete directly from a dovecot Maildir? I mean things of the form: rm Maildir/cur/1288062016.M581217P9422.alpha,S=1873,W=1900:2,S The wiki tells me 'If you wish to modify them in any way, create a new message instead and expunge the old one. ' but it doesn't

[Dovecot] Sieve on full mailbox

Hi, We are using dovecot with mail_plugins = cmusieve. I have Avelsieve in SquirrelMail for users to interact with it. Is there any way I can allow users to run their sieve script on an entire mailbox? While the normal case of having messages filtered as they are delivered to the Maildir

[Dovecot] user_attrs seems not to set 'mail'.

Hi, I am using Dovecot 1.1.13 (from a Debian package). I was having problems using user_attrs to set 'mail' and 'home'. Initially I tried: user_attrs = uid=mail=maildir:/var/mail/virtual/users/%$/Maildir/,uid=home=/var/mail/virtual/users/%$/ This appeared to set 'home' but not 'mail'. In

Re: [Dovecot] user_attrs seems not to set 'mail'.

You can't currently use the same LDAP field twice. I guess I could make it give an error message instead. Hopefully some day this will be supported though. Ah, okay. An error message would be really useful. We were scratching our heads about that for a while! Note that 'home' seems to be