[Dovecot] Dict client unescaping sieve script

[Stephan Bosch]

On 11/9/2013 12:32 AM, Joshua Perry wrote:
> I've created a dict service that listens on a unix socket and answers
> queries for sieve scripts (among other things).
>
> As I understand it (from the source code at
> http://hg.dovecot.org/dovecot-2.2/file/tip/src/lib-dict/dict-client.c), the
> dict client will unescape \001n, \001t, and \0011 to line feeds, tabs,
> and the \001 character respectively.
>
> In my service I am escaping those three characters in my response (if
> I don't escape them the line-oriented nature of the protocol causes a
> failure for multiline sieve scripts) but every time LDA attempts to
> process a sieve script I get an error in the logs (see below) showing
> sieve choking on \001 characters.
>
> Is there some configuration value I've missed or something?
>
> *dovecot log*
> Nov  8 23:04:54 www dovecot: lmtp(29940, josh at redacted.com):
> pxg7JxZufVL0dAAAPhZyyg: sieve: failed to compile script
> dict:proxy:/var/run/dovecot-auth.sock:sieve;name=main script (view
> user logfile /var/mail/vhosts/redacted.com/josh/.dovecot.sieve.log for
> more information)
>
> *.dovecot.sieve.log*
> sieve: info: started log at Nov 08 16:14:38.
> main script: line 1: error: unexpected character(s) starting with 0x01.
> main script: line 1: error: unexpected unknown characters found at
> (the presumed) end of file.
> main script: error: parse failed.

 This is likely a problem in Dovecot somewhere. We haven't had time to
look at it so far. I'll get back on this later.

Regards,

Stephan.