Yes, using v2.x of Cyrus IMAP and Websieve for user management of their
filtering rules makes this very easy.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ben Strawson" <ben.strawson@???>
To: "'Jeff '" <jaa.yahoo@???>; <exim-users@???>
Sent: Friday, February 08, 2002 6:31 AM
Subject: RE: [Exim] exim / cyrus / filtering: best approach?
> 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?
> >
> >
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > I want to enable exims user filtering, and have got this
> > running, at least with logwrite messages atm.
> >
> > 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:
> >
> > 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
> >
> > /etc/exim.conf
> > local_delivery:
> > driver = pipe
> > command = "/usr/cyrus/bin/deliver \
> > ${perl{get_folder} \
> > -- ${local_part} \
> > ${perl{set_folder}{}"
> >
> >
> > 2) Let the users specify the pipe in their .forwards
> > - don't know if this will work? (deliver must be run as cyrus user)
> > - easy for users to get wrong!
> >
> > 3) Use the Cyrus + addressing?
> > .forward
> > if <condition> deliver "${local_part}+apples" endif
> >
> > and then I guess put in rules to make exim ignore anything
> > from the plus sign onwards?
> >
> > Your advice appreciated.
> >
> > Regards
> > Jeff
> >
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