Sieve permissions issue following update

David Gessel gessel at blackrosetech.com
Tue Dec 9 19:50:37 UTC 2014


It has been running flawlessly for quite some time until the update.  

Global scripts were compiled:

/usr/local/etc/dovecot/sieve # ls
10-move-spam.sieve      10-move-spam.svbin

However, I ran sievec again and tried saving a modified script and got the same:

shiofuki dovecot: lda(gessel at blackrosetech.com): Error: sieve: binary save: failed to create temporary file: open(/usr/local/etc/dovecot/sieve/10-move-spam.svbin.shiofuki.blackrosetech.com.96421.) failed: Permission denied (euid=5000(vmail) egid=5000(vmail) missing +w perm: /usr/local/etc/dovecot/sieve, we're not in group 6(mail), dir owned by 143:6 mode=0775)
Dec  9 11:30:39 shiofuki dovecot: lda(gessel at blackrosetech.com): Error: sieve: The LDA Sieve plugin does not have permission to save global Sieve script binaries; global Sieve scripts like `/usr/local/etc/dovecot/sieve/10-move-spam.sieve' need to be pre-compiled using the sievec tool


I use Thomas Schmid's Sieve 0.2.3d add on to Thunderbird, if that might have any significance.

Compiling with sievec shouldn't change the permission error, which I still don't understand.




-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Re: Sieve permissions issue following update
From: Pascal Volk <user+dovecot at localhost.localdomain.org>
To: Dovecot Mailing List <dovecot at dovecot.org>
Date: Tue Dec 09 2014 20:45:00 GMT+0300 (Arabic Standard Time)

> On 12/09/2014 05:35 PM, David Gessel wrote:
>> I recently updated dovecot and my sieve filters stopped working.  Checking the logs I see:
>>
>> Dec  9 00:09:59 mailhost dovecot: lda(gessel at domain.com): Error: sieve: binary save: failed to create temporary file: open(/usr/local/etc/dovecot/sieve/10-move-spam.svbin.mailhost.domain.com.114.) failed: Permission denied (euid=5000(vmail) egid=5000(vmail) missing +w perm: /usr/local/etc/dovecot/sieve, we're not in group 6(mail), dir owned by 143:6 mode=0775)
>>
>> Dec  9 00:09:59 mailhost dovecot: lda(gessel at domain.com): Error: sieve: The LDA Sieve plugin does not have permission to save global Sieve script binaries; global Sieve scripts like `/usr/local/etc/dovecot/sieve/10-move-spam.sieve' need to be pre-compiled using the sievec tool
>>
>>
> 
> As mentioned in the error message from your logs and in the wiki
> <http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Pigeonhole/Sieve/Usage#Manually_Compiling_Sieve_Scripts>:
> 
> 	To mitigate this problem, the administrator must manually
> 	pre-compile global scripts using the sievec command line tool.
> 
> 
> Regards,
> Pascal
> 


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