[Dovecot] can't get sieve to sort virus into spam

[Stephan Bosch]

On 12/1/2011 3:37 AM, sean darcy wrote:
> On 11/29/2011 03:00 AM, Stephan Bosch wrote:
>> On 11/29/2011 4:09 AM, Duane Hill wrote:
>>> On Tuesday, November 29, 2011 at 02:28:29 UTC, seandarcy2 at gmail.com
>>> confabulated:
>>>
>>>> I can't get sieve to put virus files in the SPAM folder.
>>
>>>> does not end up into SPAM, or anyplace else, including inbox.
>>
>>>> How do I make this work?
>>> What gets logged? If sieve has an issue storing something, it is
>>> logged.
>>
>> The message must be stored somewhere, even if Sieve fails entirely. If
>> your Dovecot logs provide no indication that a message was handled, are
>> you even sure that LTMP is getting a message at all? In this regard your
>> MTA's logs are of importance as well.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Stephan.
>>
>
> Thanks for your response. I solved the disappearing problem: the 
> message is being put into the INBOX.
>
> There are no user sieve scripts. Is there a way to disable any that 
> could occur?
[...]
> Nov 30 21:25:43 auth: Debug: master in: USER    1       
> firstlast@<>.com        service=lmtp    lip=127.0.0.1   
> lport=24        rip=127.
> 0.0.1   rport=35594
> Nov 30 21:25:43 auth: Debug: passwd(firstlast@<>,127.0.0.1): lookup
> Nov 30 21:25:43 auth: Info: passwd(firstlast@<>,127.0.0.1): unknown user
> Nov 30 21:25:43 auth: Debug: passwd-file(firstlast@<>.com,127.0.0.1): 
> lookup: user=firstlast@<>.com file=/etc/dovecot/users
> Nov 30 21:25:43 auth: Debug: master out: USER   1       
> firstlast@<>.com        uid=504 gid=504 home=/home/vmail/<>.com/firstlas
> t
> Nov 30 21:25:43 lmtp(12609, firstlast@<>.com): Info: 
> Av/jFKfl1k5BMQAABoXEcA: 
> msgid=<CA+SwxUix1Y5GCZ89vMWpEmcfuEwxxR61wWKGvr=+pafJ05Dh_w@
> mail.gmail.com>: saved mail to INBOX

Apparently, the Sieve plugin is not active or not loaded. The message is 
stored by lmtp, because otherwise that final log line would have a 
`sieve: ' prefix somewhere. Do you see any sieve-related log lines when 
mail_debug=yes?

Regards,

Stephan.