[Dovecot] Testing sieve filter

[Cory Coager]

Cliff Meece wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am trying to get sieve working with dovecot.  Dovecot itself is
> working fine, and I have the following config:
>
> root at master:/var/log# dovecot --version
> 1.0.rc2
> root at master:/var/log# dovecot -n
> # /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf
> log_timestamp: %Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S
> protocols: imap
> ssl_disable: yes
> disable_plaintext_auth: no
> login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login
> login_executable: /usr/lib/dovecot/imap-login
> mail_extra_groups: mail
> default_mail_env: maildir:/var/mail/%u
> auth default:
>  passdb:
>    driver: pam
>  userdb:
>    driver: passwd
>
> I have this in my lda protocol:
>
> mail_plugins = cmusieve
>
>
> And I have created a .dovecot.sieve in both ~ and /var/mail/$user/
> that looks like this:
>
> require "fileinto";
> if exists "X-Spam-Flag" {
>  fileinto "Junk";
> }
>
> No mail gets moved to the junk folder, nut it does arrive in my inbox
> with the X-SPAM-Flag: Yes header.  How do I troubleshoot this?  I
> don't see anywhere in the logs any errors or any mention whatsoever of
> filtering activity or failure.
>
> I have seen numerous pages on how to set this up, but they invariably
> focus on setting up virtual users, which I do not need, so it isn't
> clear which steps I can safely ignore.
>
>
> thanks in advance,
> Cliff

Are you using the "deliver" application from dovecot to deliver emails
to mail boxes?

~Cory Coager