[Dovecot] dovecot-lda, sieve, maildir
Frank Cusack
fcusack at fcusack.com
Tue Jul 4 09:57:31 EEST 2006
On July 3, 2006 11:55:38 PM -0700 Frank Cusack <fcusack at fcusack.com> wrote:
> On July 3, 2006 11:56:00 AM +1000 Peter Fern <dovecot at obfusc8.org> wrote:
>> Frank Cusack wrote:
>>> I'm unable to get dovecot-lda with sieve filtering to deliver into
>>> maildir folders. The examples on the wiki explicitly say "mbox", so
>>> I'm wondering, does the dovecot-lda sieve implementation not support
>>> filtering into maildir folders?
>>>
>>> -frank
>> Maildirs work fine, example:
>
> hmm, not for me. Here's the entirety of my .dovecot.sieve:
>
> require ["fileinto", "vacation"];
>
># test
> if address :is "from" "user at list.org" {
> fileinto "fcusack/inbox";
> }
>
>
> If I start from scratch and create ~/Mail, I can send a test message
> which gets filed correctly (new subdir fcusack is created with new
> mbox file inbox).
>
> If I start from scratch and create ~/Maildir, the same message is created
> in ~/Maildir/new. Even if I create ~/Maildir/.fcusack.inbox the message
> is not filed there.
>
> Any ideas what might be wrong?
And of course, as soon as I sent the last email I figured it out. Using
'.' instead of '/' as folder separator fixed it. Why does Maildir require
a different folder separator? Isn't this a bug?
-frank
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