[Dovecot] patching dovecot for sieve/managesieve support, centos 5.6?

[Stephan Bosch]

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On 11/10/2011 5:09 AM, Scott Lewis wrote:
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> ----- Forwarded Message -----
> From: Scott Lewis<scott_the_musician at yahoo.com.au>
> To: "dovecot at dovecot.org"<dovecot at dovecot.org>
> Sent: Thursday, 3 November 2011 4:31 PM
> Subject: patching dovecot for sieve/managesieve support, centos 5.6?
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> Hi all,
>
> I am having real trouble when attempting to patch dovecot 1.2 to include the Pidgeonhole sieve support on my CentOS 5.6 x64 mail server. I am relatively new to the programming side of linux, but I am not having a lot of luck when trying to get this thing to compile.
>
> Here's what happens:
>
> [root at mail ~]# whereis dovecot
> dovecot: /usr/sbin/dovecot /etc/dovecot.conf /usr/lib/dovecot /usr/libexec/dovecot /usr/share/man/man8/dovecot.8.gz
>
> [root at mail dovecot-1.2-sieve-0.1.19]# ./configure --with-dovecot=/usr/lib/dovecot
>
> ...
>
> checking whether to build static libraries... yes
> dovecot-config not found from /usr/lib/dovecot, use --with-dovecot=PATH
> to give path to compiled Dovecot sources or to a directory with the
> installed dovecot-config file. configure: error:
>   dovecot-config not found
>
> --
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> I get this message regardless of whether I set --with-dovecot as /usr/sbin/dovecot, or /etc, or /usr/libexec/dovecot.
>
> I have SquirrelMail 1.4.22 running, and the avelsieve front-end seems happy enough. when I visit https://mail.mydomain.com/src/configtest.php, I get:
>
> Avelsieve plugin details: backend = ManageSieve
> ERROR: I could not determine the capabilities for Sieve Mail Filtering. Perhaps connectivity with ManageSieve server (if backend=Managesieve) is bad?
>
> thanks in advance!