[Dovecot] sieve-pipe Error

[Stephan Bosch]

On 10/24/2011 12:00 PM, Ian Barton wrote:
> I am using Dovecot 2.0.15 on Arch. I have cloned the hg repo and 
> compiled the plugin using the following options:
>
> ./configure --with-dovecot=/usr/lib/dovecot 
> --with-pigeonhole=/usr/include/dovecot/sieve/
>
> The relevant section of my dovecot.conf looks like:
>
> plugin {
>   sieve = ~/.dovecot.sieve
>   sieve_global_path = /home/vmail/globalsieverc
>   sieve_dir = ~/
>
>   sieve_plugins = sieve_pipe
>   # This directory contains the scripts that are available.
>   sieve_pipe_bin_dir = /usr/lib/dovecot/sieve-pipe
> }
>
> When I restart Dovecot I get the following error:
>
> ian:dovecot/ $ sudo rc.d restart dovecot 
>                                           [10:50:53]
> :: Stopping dovecot daemon 
>                                               [DONE]
> :: Starting dovecot daemon 
>                                               [BUSY] managesieve: 
> Fatal: opendir(/usr/lib/dovecot/modules/sieve) failed: No such file or 
> directory
> doveconf: Error: managesieve-login: dump-capability process returned 89

Apparently, the plugin is not installed in the correct location. Try 
supplying a --with-moduledir=/usr/lib/dovecot/modules .

After make install, the /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/sieve directory should 
contain lib90_sieve_pipe_plugin.so.

Regards,

Stephan.