Cyrus is capable of running filtering on a per-user basis. Have a look
at the Sieve extensions. I've never used them myself (but am looking
into it), but this is surely the best way to do it?
It maybe you need version 2 of Cyrus...
Regards, Ben.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: exim-users-admin@???
> [mailto:exim-users-admin@exim.org] On Behalf Of Jeff
> Sent: 08 February 2002 12:14
> To: exim-users@???
> Subject: [Exim] exim / cyrus / filtering: best approach?
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> Greetings fellow eximers!
>
> I have exim acting as my MTA and successfully delivering to
> Cyrus IMAP using a pipe driver to /usr/cyrus/bin/deliver.
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> I want to enable exims user filtering, and have got this
> running, at least with logwrite messages atm.
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> I want users to be able to deliver incoming mail into a
> variety of imap folders based on all the normal sort of
> filtering things - e.g. things like: if $h_from contains
> "root" save $home/servers endif
>
> Cyrus uses its own centralised message store, so this doesn't
> work. (Please remember I want this to be easy for users to
> manage their own .forwards!)
>
> I see several approaches, and would like advice on the best one:
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> 1) Set a perlvar in the filter that is used and then cleared
> in the cyrus pipe: (I have tested this and it works - will it
> work for lots of users simultaneously as the perl set_folder
> var is global?)
>
> .forward
> if <condition> ${perl{set_folder}{apples}} endif
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> /etc/exim.conf
> local_delivery:
> driver = pipe
> command = "/usr/cyrus/bin/deliver \
> ${perl{get_folder} \
> -- ${local_part} \
> ${perl{set_folder}{}"
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> 2) Let the users specify the pipe in their .forwards
> - don't know if this will work? (deliver must be run as cyrus user)
> - easy for users to get wrong!
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> 3) Use the Cyrus + addressing?
> .forward
> if <condition> deliver "${local_part}+apples" endif
>
> and then I guess put in rules to make exim ignore anything
> from the plus sign onwards?
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> Your advice appreciated.
>
> Regards
> Jeff
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