Plugins
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Distributed with Dovecot:

 * <acl> [ACL.txt]: Access Control Lists for mailboxes
 * <autocreate> [Plugins.Autocreate.txt]: Automatically create/subscribe
   mailboxes when user logs in
 * <convert> [Plugins.Convert.txt]: Convert user's mailboxes from one format to
   another on login
 * <expire> [Plugins.Expire.txt]: Delete mails from specified mailboxes after a
   designated number of days
 * <fts> [Plugins.FTS.txt]: Full text search indexing
 * <lazy_expunge> [Plugins.Lazyexpunge.txt]: Make EXPUNGE and DELETE commands
   just rename the mails elsewhere
 * <listescape> [Plugins.Listescape.txt]: Allow using characters in mailbox
   names that would otherwise be illegal
 * <mail_log> [Plugins.MailLog.txt]: Log several mail actions
 * <mbox_snarf> [Plugins.MboxSnarf.txt]: UW-IMAP style mbox snarfing from
   '/var/mail/%u' to '~/mbox'
 * <quota> [Quota.txt]: Quota tracking and enforcing
    * imap_quota: IMAP commands for requesting current quota
 * <trash> [Plugins.Trash.txt]: Delete mails from Trash when user would go over
   quota
 * <virtual> [Plugins.Virtual.txt]: Virtual mailboxes
 * <zlib> [Plugins.Zlib.txt]: Access compressed mails

External:

 * antispam [http://johannes.sipsolutions.net/Projects/dovecot-antispam]:
   Integrates spam learning into Dovecot
 * drac [http://dovecot.org/patches/1.1/drac.c]: Pop-before-SMTP plugin using
   DRAC
 * whoson [ftp://ftp.ufanet.ru/pub/boco/dovecot/whoson-plugin/]:
   Pop-before-SMTP plugin using WHOSON protocol [http://whoson.sourceforge.net]

 * alert [http://dovecot.org/patches/1.0/imap-alert-plugin.c]: Send IMAP ALERT
   message from '/etc/dovecot.alert'.
 * <sieve & cmusieve> [LDA.Sieve.txt]: Use the SIEVE [http://sieve.info/]
   language for filtering
 * Fetchmail wakeup [http://github.com/marschap/fetchmail_wakeup]: Wakes
   fetchmail when Dovecot looks for new mail. This is a heavily extended and
   updated version that works with Dovecot 1.1.x and 1.2.x
 * Fetchmail wake [http://guichaz.free.fr/misc/]: Wakes fetchmail when Dovecot
   looks for new mail. This is the original version that only works with
   dovecot 1.0.x

Experimental Plugins:

 * <xexec> [Plugins.xexec.txt]: Execute any server side application and
   communicate with it through plugins over IMAP
 * <Plugins.deleted-to-trash.txt>: Automatically move deleted item to trash
   folder, if client side doesn't do it, such as outlook.

To enable / disable plugins per user you can make your userdb return
'mail_plugins' extra field. See <UserDatabase.ExtraFields.txt> for examples. 

(This file was created from the wiki on 2009-10-16 04:42)