help filtering messages

[James]

Bump - hoping someone can point me in the right direction.

Thanks.
On Tue, Oct 20, 2015 at 8:39 AM James <jameszee13 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I'm attempting to use sieve-filter on a local mailbox.
>
> I've defined mail_location as follows:
> % grep mail_location /etc/dovecot/conf.d/10-mail.conf
> mail_location = maildir:~/Mail
>
> I have a large number of mailboxes / mail in ~/Mail:
>
> ~ % find Mail | wc -l
> 63158
>
> There are definitely a few messages in INBOX:
>
> ~ % find Mail/INBOX/cur | wc -l
> 5
>
> I must admit, I'm completely new to sieve and have just begun
> experimenting with it. Based on a super helpful blog post[1], I quick
> set up the following ~/.sieve:
>
> % cat ~/.sieve
> require ["fileinto"];
> # rule:[TEST]
> if header :contains "Subject" "Test Email"
> {
>         fileinto "TEST";
>         stop;
> }
>
> As mentioned, there are numerous emails in INBOX. This email is
> located in ~/Mail/INBOX/cur/<blah> and, for verbosity (and to ensure
> I'm not making a foolish mistake), I've displayed it here:
>
> From: Test Account <test at test.com>
> To: "Me" <me at test.com>
> Subject: Test Email
> Date: Mon, 19 Oct 2015 14:55:06 +0000
>
> This is a test email.
>
> Looking at the sieve filter recipe and email message, it appears that
> I should have a match, no? sieve-filter appears to disagree:
>
> % sieve-filter -C ~/.sieve INBOX
> sieve-filter(test_user): Debug: Effective uid=1000, gid=1000,
> home=/home/test_user
> sieve-filter(test_user): Debug: Namespace inbox: type=private,
> prefix=, sep=, inbox=yes, hidden=no, list=yes, subscriptions=yes
> location=maildir:~/Mail
> sieve-filter(test_user): Debug: maildir++: root=/home/test_user/Mail,
> index=, indexpvt=, control=, inbox=/home/test_user/Mail, alt=
>
> Thinking this was because sieve will only filter on new messages, I
> moved the file from cur to new. No change.
>
> Any thoughts on why this may be happening?
>
> Thanks!
>
> 1
> https://mebsd.com/configure-freebsd-servers/dovecot-pigeonhole-sieve-filter-refilter-delivered-email.html
>