[Dovecot] Dovecot Sieve

Robert Schetterer robert at schetterer.org
Tue Jan 18 14:35:49 EET 2011


Am 18.01.2011 13:21, schrieb J4:
> 
> 
> On 01/18/2011 01:16 PM, J4 wrote:
>> On 01/18/2011 12:55 PM, Robert Schetterer wrote:
>>> Am 18.01.2011 12:48, schrieb J4:
>>> [SNIP]
>> Hi,
>>
>> Ok, then I'll post here.   
>>
>> I asked because it is only now, after three weeks of trying to
>> understand Sieve and how to filter spam out, that I realised that one
>> needs a separate programme to enable Sieve in Dovecot.  I had thought
>> that it was included in Dovecot ,abd one only had to enable a plugin
>> reference in the dovecot.conf.   Because another programme has to be
>> installed, I had thought that it was not part of Dovecot proper, and
>> would need to be addressed to another list.  I know that I shall run
>> into Sieve related config problems, but did not want to burden this list
>> with these.

i dont know how to use sieve to filter spam ( thought it must exec a
external prog for that like spamc etc), some people use dspam plugin to
filter spam with dovecot, i only use sieve to filter allready marked
spam into
users spam folders, i use spamass-milter with postfix smtp level, there
are several ways you can do spam filtering, and on what level, so there
is amavis too etc

>>
>> However, I compiled Dovecot Sieve and installed it into the default of
>> /usr/local, and it looks like I have a second installation of Dovecot
>> :(  I downloaded Sieve from wget
>> http://dovecot.org/releases/1.2/dovecot-1.2.16.tar.gz.  Looks like the
>> install guide I found that said to install Sieve had a typo' and the URL
>> was for the whole of Dovecot.

better use the recent stable branch 2.09

>>
>> i) Does anyone know where I can download Dovecot Sieve from?  
>> ii) Is there a way of removing all the files I installed from the
>> previous 'make instal'l I did?   I tried a 'make uninstall', but this
>> did not remove everything.
>>
>> I know this looks compleatly braindead to anyone else reading this
>> list...  myself included ... buts too late ( in both cases ).
> Question ii) has been solved ( I think ) :
> cd /usr/local; find | grep dovecot > /tmp/a; for i in `cat /tmp/a` ; do
> rm -r $i;done
> Seems to have worked!

hm why arent you using distro packs....
if unsure where files are copied i.e do make install again
at the last few lines apaering you should see where they got copied
(for sure there are better ways to uninstall, i didnt thought of yet)

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Best Regards

MfG Robert Schetterer

Germany/Munich/Bavaria


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