[Dovecot] dovecot-2.0-beta4, lda and sieve: Permission lookup failed from /tmp/Dovecot Delivery

[Felix Leimbach]

On 04/14/2010 07:22 PM, Pascal Volk wrote:
> On 04/14/2010 07:04 PM Felix Leimbach wrote:
> > …
> > As a sidenote, I didn't find a way to automatically create user's home
> > directories if they don't yet exist.
> > …
>
> Pimp your 'admin tool.'
>   

hehe, great advice ;)

> > …
> > However, suddenly managesieve does not work anymore (called from TB's
> > sieve plugin):
> > 
> > dovecot: managesieve(me at example.com): maildir++:
> > root=/mnt/data/vmail/example.com/me, index=, control=,
> > inbox=/mnt/data/vmail/example.com/me
> > 
> > Here the client sits for 20 seconds displaying "Authenticating ..." and
> > then stops with a timeout error.
> > 
> > dovecot: managesieve(me at example.com): Connection closed bytes=0/17
>
> Hm, works here. Latest Dovecot-Pigeonhole from the Mercurial repo.
> Enable all debug settings and try again. Something useful should be logged
>   

Well ... after doing just that and restarting dovecot and TB it works.
So must have been a fuckup on my side, nevemind.

> > On a related note: I want to have a default sieve script which is
> > executed for every user in addition to their own scripts. The reason is
> > to put spam emails into a separate spam folder.
> > I planned to use sieve_global_dir for that purpose, but it seems that
> > the script there needs to be included in the user's own script.
> > But most of the users won't even have a sieve script, let alone add that
> > include.
> > How can I achieve that global spam sorting?
>
> Use the sieve_before setting, see:
> http://wiki.dovecot.org/LDA/Sieve/Dovecot#Executing_Multiple_Scripts_Sequentially
>   

Great, exactly what I was looking for.
Thanks for your help. Now moving on to http://dovecot.org/donate.html

Cheers,
Felix