DoveCot, move messages from certain domains to folder: Difference between revisions
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= Goal = |
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We will assume the user you are creating filters for is "petra". Petra does not want to see messages from certain domains (corporations) but does want to keep them for a while in her trash, so she can find them if someone calls her and references "his mail from yesterday". |
We will assume the user you are creating filters for is "petra". Petra does not want to see messages from certain domains (corporations) but does want to keep them for a while in her trash, so she can find them if someone calls her and references "his mail from yesterday". |
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= Possible destination folders = |
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Get a list of folders |
Get a list of folders |
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ls -d /home/petra/Maildir/.* |
ls -d /home/petra/Maildir/.* |
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What you get may differ. If - for example - you use Outlook, chances are your output is completely different. That is NOT important. Important is to know what DoveCot works with. So, our target folder for this example is "/home/petra/Maildir/.INBOX.Trash". |
What you get may differ. If - for example - you use Outlook, chances are your output is completely different. That is NOT important. Important is to know what DoveCot works with. So, our target folder for this example is "/home/petra/Maildir/.INBOX.Trash". |
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Inside the filter we will use the "save" command. If given a relative destination, it will insert the home folder of the current user before the given folder. So we will just use "Maildir/.INBOX.Trash/" to be able to copy the file from user to user. |
Inside the filter we will use the "save" command. If given a relative destination, it will insert the home folder of the current user before the given folder. So we will just use "Maildir/.INBOX.Trash/" to be able to copy the file from user to user. |
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= .forward file = |
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We create a ".forward" file in the home directory of Petra. Could be something like |
We create a ".forward" file in the home directory of Petra. Could be something like |
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chown petra:petra /home/petra/.forward |
chown petra:petra /home/petra/.forward |
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== filter == |
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We want a filter for Domain.bad.1 and Domain.bad.2. |
We want a filter for Domain.bad.1 and Domain.bad.2. |
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Latest revision as of 14:31, 8 March 2019
Goal
We will assume the user you are creating filters for is "petra". Petra does not want to see messages from certain domains (corporations) but does want to keep them for a while in her trash, so she can find them if someone calls her and references "his mail from yesterday".
Possible destination folders
Get a list of folders
ls -d /home/petra/Maildir/.*
You will see something like this:
/home/petra/Maildir/.INBOX /home/petra/Maildir/.INBOX.Trash /home/petra/Maildir/.INBOX.Archives /home/petra/Maildir/.INBOX.Sent /home/petra/Maildir/.INBOX.Templates /home/petra/Maildir/.INBOX.Junk /home/petra/Maildir/.INBOX.Drafts
What you get may differ. If - for example - you use Outlook, chances are your output is completely different. That is NOT important. Important is to know what DoveCot works with. So, our target folder for this example is "/home/petra/Maildir/.INBOX.Trash". Inside the filter we will use the "save" command. If given a relative destination, it will insert the home folder of the current user before the given folder. So we will just use "Maildir/.INBOX.Trash/" to be able to copy the file from user to user.
.forward file
We create a ".forward" file in the home directory of Petra. Could be something like
vi /home/petra/.forward
The ownership of the ".forward" file is important. If you just copy the ".forward" file and don't modify the ownership, the ".forward" will not be used.
chown petra:petra /home/petra/.forward
filter
We want a filter for Domain.bad.1 and Domain.bad.2. This is the .forward file:
# Exim filter
if $sender_address contains @domain.bad.1 or
$sender_address contains @domain.bad.2
then
save Maildir/.INBOX.Trash/
endif
