[SOLVED] redirecting e-mail by sender

[potuz]

My MTA/MDA-LDA/ MUA of choice are Postfix/Dovecot/Mutt. If a user wants to redirect emails from a specific address to a different folder he/she can do this with their own MUA. I can do this at the server level with both postfix and dovecot, but I wander if the user can do this filtering automatically without the need of running the client. Namely is there something like a ~/.config/dovecot/* or similar that each user can edit to apply filters? or this has to be done at the client level?

[grooveman]

Not that familiar with postfix... but, I know that procmail can do what you are talking about. Have you looked into that? Each user has his/her own .procmailrc that can be changed by them... then there is a system-wide /etc/procmailrc that applies to everyone managed by the sysadmin.

I've heard of people using it with postfix (I've been a sendmail guy, and I know it works beautifully there), so this could very conceivably work for you... Check it out

[bunder]

i've been using maildrop for some years now... works pretty good as long as you maintain the sorting rules...

/home/me/.mailfilter

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logfile .maildrop.log

if (/^From:.*gentoo\.org/)
{
        to $DEFAULT/.gentoo
}

edit: darn, this looks like it only works with courier-imap.

[potuz]

It seems that this is already there in Dovecot, I haven't had time to read carefully, but it looks as though this solves my issue:

https://wiki2.dovecot.org/Pigeonhole

Edit: indeed adding sieve support was as simple as changing one line in a configuration file and the users can add Sieve scripts to do their own filtering.