Sieve: Invalid/unknown path to storage

[Christian Kivalo]

Am 25. Dezember 2015 10:06:56 MEZ, schrieb Kay-Michael Voit <kay at voits.net>:
>Hi, I have just updated from Ubuntu 15.04 to 15.10. Unfortunately,
>sieve 
>scripts are not recognized anymore.
>
>Here is my version:
>> dovecot --version
>> 2.2.18
>> apt-cache policy dovecot-sieve
>> dovecot-sieve:
>>   Installed: 1:2.2.18-2ubuntu2
>>   Candidate: 1:2.2.18-2ubuntu2
>>   Version table:
>>  *** 1:2.2.18-2ubuntu2 0
>>         500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ wily/main amd64
>Packages
>>         100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

What was the version  of dovecot in ubuntu 15.04?
Have you checked your existing configuration files against the examples provided by the new version for changes to options?

>And this is the log entry:
>> Dec 25 09:24:12 home-le dovecot: lda(user1): Warning: sieve: file 
>> storage: Active sieve script symlink /home/user1/.dovecot.sieve is 
>> broken: Invalid/unknown path to storage (points to
>/home/user1/sieve).
>> Dec 25 09:24:12 home-le dovecot: lda(user1): 
>> msgid=<567CFD2C.7070301 at example.org>: saved mail to INBOX
>> Dec 25 09:24:12 home-le postfix/local[28536]: 70876BD035A: 
>> to=<user1 at example.org>, relay=local, delay=0.07, 
>> delays=0.02/0.01/0/0.04, dsn=2.0.0, status=sent (delivered to
>command: 
>> /usr/lib/dovecot/deliver -c /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf -m
>"${EXTENSION}")

Set mail_debug=yes that logs details  of the sieve plugin  execution
http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Pigeonhole/Sieve/Troubleshooting

>It is not a permission issue (though there should even be one with more
>
>restrictive permissions)
>> otheruser at home-le:~$ cat /home/user1/.dovecot.sieve
>> require ["variables","date", "include"];
>>
>> include :personal "00-delete";
>> include :personal "01-spam";
>> include :personal "50-bulk_filter";
>
>It is apparently also not a path normalization issue (also according to
>
>the correct "points to" path in the log). I used an absolute path in
>the 
>symlink:
>> user1 at home-le:~$ ls -la .dovecot.sieve
>> lrwxrwxrwx 1 user1 user1 33 Dec 25 09:23 .dovecot.sieve -> 
>> /home/kay/sieve/managesieve.sieve
>
>Any idea what could be wrong here?
>
>Here is my dovecot -n output:
>> namespace inbox {
>>   inbox = yes
>>   location =
>>   mailbox Drafts {
>>     special_use = \Drafts
>>   }
>>   mailbox Junk {
>>     special_use = \Junk
>>   }
>>   mailbox Sent {
>>     special_use = \Sent
>>   }
>>   mailbox "Sent Messages" {
>>     special_use = \Sent
>>   }
>>   mailbox Trash {
>>     special_use = \Trash
>>   }
>>   prefix =
>>   separator = .
>>   type = private
>> }
>> passdb {
>>   driver = pam
>> }
>> plugin {
>>   sieve = file:~/.dovecot.sieve
>>   sieve_dir = ~/sieve
>> }

According to the documentation  sieve_dir is deprecated but should still work. The "sieve =" configuration accepts options to set the active script
http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Pigeonhole/Sieve/Configuration

>> postmaster_address = postmaster at example.net
>> protocols = " imap sieve"
>> service managesieve-login {
>>   inet_listener sieve {
>>     port = 4190
>>   }
>> }
>> ssl_ca = </etc/ssl/certs/startssl.ca.pem
>> ssl_cert = </etc/ssl/certs/net.example.home-le.pem
>> ssl_key = </etc/ssl/private/net.example.home-le.key
>> submission_host = 192.168.153.1
>> userdb {
>>   driver = passwd
>> }
>> protocol lda {
>>   mail_plugins = " sieve"
>> }
>> protocol imap {
>>   mail_max_userip_connections = 50
>> }