On Wed, 8 May 2019 at 01:01, Mike Tubby via Exim-users <exim-users@???>
wrote:
> I'm building an Exim/Dovecot/Nginx/Roundcube system to replace our
> ancient public mailserver (Redhat 9, Exim 4.14, Courier-IMAP).
>
> The new system OS is Devuan 3.0 "Beowulf" with MariaDB 10.3 (no systemd
> entanglement ;-) and I've built a database to host users, passwords,
> domains, aliases, vacation messages etc. based on Alex's recopies over
> here:
>
> http://alex.mamchenkov.net/2010/06/24/exim-dovecot-and-mysql/
>
> and have Exim 4.92 compiled from source, clients connecting and
> authenticating, sending and receiving email and Dovecot serving it, etc.
> but have discovered that some of my users have custom Exim filters set
> up in their .forward files, for example:
>
> # Exim filter <= do not remove this line!!!
>
> if $header_to contains "asterisk-users" or
> $header_cc contains "asterisk-users" or
> $header_to contains "asterisk-dev" or
> $header_cc contains "asterisk-dev" or
> then
> save "$home/Maildir/.Asterisk/"
> finish
> endif
>
> On the old server everyone with a mailbox has a unix account and hence
> had access to their home directory where they could place a ".forward"
> file with the magic "# Exim filter" first line.
>
> With the new system there are no user logins and all users have virtual
> mailboxes stored in:
>
> /var/spool/mail/<domain>/<local_part>/{cur|new|tmp}
>
> is there a way to implement per-user filtering by having Exim read it
> from a MySQL/MariaDB table at delivery/processing time?
>
>
You can use sieve by adding dovecot-pigeonhole to your setup.
If you give people access to webmail using Roundcube (or SOGo), they can
manage their sieve rules
from the webmail interface. You can start from
https://forum.directadmin.com/showthread.php?t=43332
or just search for "Exim Dovecot sieve" and choose your HOWTO.
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