Sieve not filtering

[Ben]

> What I did when encountering a similar issue was to take one of the messages from INBOX that should have been moved elsewhere and use sieve-test on it:
>
> sieve-test -Tlevel=matching <sieve source file> <message file>
>
> That generates a lot of output as it goes through every line of the sieve file and shows the actual values that are used for the tests.  However, it pointed out my problem quite clearly.
>

Thank you for this.

Actually, after many hours of head-bashing, I discovered the problem.

sieve doesn't work when you're just using telnet port 25 !

I was doing :
ehlo test
mail from:sender at example.com
rcpt to:recip at example.com
data
Subject: hello world
Hello World !
.

With the above, sieve was simply sending everything to INBOX

When I changed my methodology :
ehlo test
mail from:sender at example.com
rcpt to:recip at example.com
data
From:<sender at example.com>
To:<recip at example.com>
Subject: hello world
Hello World !
.

It worked as expected.