"Sensible" location for Sieve scripts

Shawn Heisey elyograg at elyograg.org
Fri Jun 26 20:44:16 UTC 2015


On 6/26/2015 12:25 PM, Benny Pedersen wrote:
> On June 26, 2015 7:10:29 PM Andrew Beverley <andy at andybev.com> wrote:
> 
>> > in the "plugin" section:
>> >   sieve=/home/vmail/sieve/%d/%u/.dovecot.sieve
>> >   sieve_dir=/home/vmail/sieve/%d/%u/sieve
> 
> change last sieve to .sieve so it does not colledge with other dirs
> atleast to remember if maildir does not start with a dot, i do this to
> prevent sive scripts show up in maildirs
> 
> above will olso works if $HOME is diff for sieve and maildir, just me
> that have one $HOME for all virtual users in dovecot

Since I don't have a domain named "sieve" (and never will) that location
can never conflict with any user's Maildirs.  My mail_location parameter
is set to maildir:/home/vmail/%d/%u/ which doesn't overlap at all.

Thanks,
Shawn



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