Tom Allison wrote:
I have a question that might be more about sieve than cyrus, but hopefully they are related enough that I can get away with this question.
:)
procmail has the ability to "shell out" and run other commands as needed on the basis of the email content.
I can use certain filtering criterial to initiate an external program.
Can you do anything like this under sieve/cyrus-imap?
No. Sieve was designed to be safe for the average user. People can do a lot of stupid things with procmail, including losing their mail.
sieve, as I understand it, is an application which is "sandboxed" and not capable of being used to shell out to another application.
At this point, it seems my only option to to attempt sticking procmail in the middle of the delivery process.
It's a bit of a slow down, but there might not be a choice in the matter....
You can still use procmail, but it makes things a *lot* more expensive, unless it now supports LMTP (I haven't looked in a while). For every message, you'll have 4 processes executed -- your MTA (Sendmail, Postfix, etc), procmail, deliver, lmtpd. If procmail supports LMTP, you drop the deliver piece. If you stick with Sieve, then you only have the first and last.
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