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Dovecot 1.1.11 + managesieve + CMU Sieve Solaris pkgs

Wednesday, Mar 11. 2009  –  Category: Grommit, OpenSolaris

I’d been looking for a good way to do server-side mail filtering with client side configuration… and short of some lame CGI interfaces to editing your .procmailrc, I hadn’t found much until I discovered Sieve a few days ago.  To skip a long and boring story, I rebuilt a bunch of packages (yay for JDS’s spec build system) for the following:

• Dovecot IMAP server (1.1.11)
• Dovecot’s CMU Sieve plugin (1.1.6)
• Dovecot’s managesieve plugin (0.10.5)

Quick summary: Dovecot is a wicked awesome IMAP server.  Sieve provides a way of doing mail filtering.  managesieve is an protocol to allow users to modify their sieve filters via the IMAP protocol.

I use Roundcube Webmail on my server, and there is a super-nice Roundcube Managesieve plugin available.

So I built and installed my Dovecot packages, installed the Roundcube Managesieve plugin, and I’m off and flying with awesome client-configurable mail filtering while allowing the mail filtering itself to be done server-side.

I’ve made the packages available here (14 MB download).  This SVr4 pkg contains SFEdovecot, SFEdovecot-cmusieve, SFEdovecot-managesieve, and the SFEdovecot-root (configuration files) packages.

SHDH: Getting Songbird to sing on OpenSolaris

Thursday, Dec 27. 2007  –  Category: OpenSolaris, Songbird

Contrary to much popular opinion, I’m not actually employed at Songbird to work on porting it to OpenSolaris… so I haven’t had any time to really work on it at all. Fortunately, next weekend looks free, and coincides nicely with SuperHappyDevHouse, yay!

So with that, I’m planning to be at SHDH 22 next weekend Jan. 5th… if anyone in the SF Bay Area wants to meetup to hack on getting Songbird running on OpenSolaris, t’would be grand. If you’re not in the area, we should try and coordinate via IRC. I know there are at least 3 people (Triskelios, Ken, & dynamicproxy) who have given this a shot already – so let’s try and coordinate efforts and get this thing singing.