Re: [exim] exim and sieve filters

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Autor: Mark de Vries
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To: exim-users
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Roel Schroeven wrote:
> Mark de Vries schreef:
>> Roel Schroeven wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> We currently have a setup where exim delivers to Maildir, and each user
>>> has a .forward with an exim filter. Users access their mail using
>>> Thunderbird via IMAP (using dovecot). So far, everything is working fine.
>>>
>>> Now I'm looking for a way to automatically label all new mails in one
>>> specific account so they appear as 'to do' in Thunderbird (I can't do
>>> that in Thunderbird itself since it's a shared account that's used from
>>> different client machines). As far as I can see, that cannot be done in
>>> an exim filter, but it can be done in a sieve filter using addflag
>>> "$label4".
>> So, to avoid confusion, you are using a sieve filter in dovecot, and not
>> the exim sieve filter capabilities, right? If so...
>
> No, I'm trying to use a the sieve filter from exim, not from dovecot.
> Though I'm starting to think that it might be best to switch to dovecot
> for delivering and filtering mail.


Hmm, the reason I assumed dovecot is because the sieve filter in exim
can't addflag's to messages... So if that's what you want to do then I
think you don't have much choice but to do the sieve filterin in dovecot.

Cheers,
Mark.