Filtering mails with sieve filters - SOLVED

Odhiambo Washington odhiambo at gmail.com
Fri Oct 30 11:47:23 EET 2020


Answering to myself,

The issue was as a result of a config parameter for SOGo:

Changed
NGImap4ConnectionStringSeparator = "/";

to

NGImap4ConnectionStringSeparator = ".";

and the problem is solved.


On Fri, 30 Oct 2020 at 11:43, Odhiambo Washington <odhiambo at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hello good people,
>
> I have dovecot- 2.3.7.2 (Ubuntu  Ubuntu 20.04.1 LTS) running fine.
> However, I have a hitch with mail filtering.
>
> Using SOGo as the webmail UI, I created a filter rule which resulted into
> the rule below:
>
> require ["fileinto"];
> if allof (address :contains "from" "odhiambo") {
>     fileinto "INBOX/Odhiambo";
> }
>
> However, the test mail I sent did not end up the folder expected.
>
> lda.log contains this info:
> Oct 30 07:39:07 lda(wash at mydomain)<2415266><tSKSHhvDm1+i2iQA9H6eMA>:
> Info: sieve: msgid=<CAAdA2WNqXpG1qmOmKp_pJPS6iQrEPeS6=vM_=
> o8UnvR152x54Q at mail.gmail.com>: stored mail into mailbox 'INBOX'
> Oct 30 07:39:07 lda(wash at mydomain)<2415266><tSKSHhvDm1+i2iQA9H6eMA>:
> Info: sieve: Execution of script
> /var/spool/virtual/mydomain/wash/.dovecot.sieve failed, but implicit keep
> was successful (user logfile
> /var/spool/virtual/mydomain/wash/.dovecot.sieve.log may reveal additional
> details)
>
> And the .dovecot.sieve.log contains:
> sieve: info: started log at Oct 30 07:39:07.
> error: msgid=<CAAdA2WNqXpG1qmOmKp_pJPS6iQrEPeS6=vM_=
> o8UnvR152x54Q at mail.gmail.com>: failed to store into mailbox
> 'INBOX/Odhiambo': *Invalid mailbox name: Name must not have '/'
> characters.*
>
> What might be the problem here??
>
>
> dovecot -n output is below:
>
> # 2.3.7.2 (3c910f64b): /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf
> # Pigeonhole version 0.5.7.2 ()
> # OS: Linux 5.4.0-29-generic x86_64 Ubuntu 20.04.1 LTS ext4
> # Hostname: jp.mydomain
> auth_mechanisms = plain login
> auth_socket_path = /var/run/dovecot/auth-userdb
> debug_log_path = /var/log/dovecot/debug.log
> default_login_user = dovecot
> default_vsz_limit = 2 G
> disable_plaintext_auth = no
> first_valid_uid = 110
> hostname = gw.mydomain
> info_log_path = /var/log/dovecot/info.log
> log_path = /var/log/dovecot/error.log
> mail_gid = Debian-exim
> mail_location = maildir:/var/spool/virtual/%d/%n/Maildir:INDEX=/var/spool/virtual/indexes/%d/%1n/%n
> mail_plugins = fts
> mail_privileged_group = mail
> mail_server_admin = postmaster at mydomain
> mail_uid = Debian-exim
> managesieve_notify_capability = mailto
> managesieve_sieve_capability = fileinto reject envelope encoded-character vacation subaddress comparator-i;ascii-numeric relational regex imap4flags copy include variables body enotify environment mailbox date index ihave duplicate mime foreverypart extracttext imapsieve vnd.dovecot.imapsieve
> 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 =
> }
> passdb {
>   args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf.ext
>   driver = sql
> }
> plugin {
>   fts_autoindex = yes
>   fts_autoindex_exclude = \Junk
>   fts_autoindex_exclude2 = \Trash
>   fts_autoindex_exclude3 = \Drafts
>   fts_autoindex_exclude4 = \Spam
>   fts_enforced = yes
>   imapsieve_mailbox1_before = file:/usr/lib/dovecot/sieve/report-spam.sieve
>   imapsieve_mailbox1_causes = COPY
>   imapsieve_mailbox1_name = Spam
>   imapsieve_mailbox2_before = file:/usr/lib/dovecot/sieve/report-ham.sieve
>   imapsieve_mailbox2_causes = COPY
>   imapsieve_mailbox2_from = Spam
>   imapsieve_mailbox2_name = *
>   plugin = fts managesieve sieve
>   sieve = file:~/sieve;active=~/.dovecot.sieve
>   sieve_execute_bin_dir = /usr/lib/dovecot/sieve-execute
>   sieve_filter_bin_dir = /usr/lib/dovecot/sieve-filter
>   sieve_global_extensions = +vnd.dovecot.pipe +vnd.dovecot.environment
>   sieve_pipe_bin_dir = /usr/lib/dovecot/sieve
>   sieve_plugins = sieve_imapsieve sieve_extprograms
> }
> postmaster_address = postmaster at mydomain
> protocols = imap lmtp sieve
> service auth {
>   unix_listener auth-client {
>     mode = 0600
>     user = Debian-exim
>   }
>   unix_listener auth-userdb {
>     group = Debian-exim
>     user = Debian-exim
>   }
> }
> service stats {
>   unix_listener stats-reader {
>     user = Debian-exim
>   }
>   unix_listener stats-writer {
>     user = Debian-exim
>   }
> }
> service submission-login {
>   inet_listener submission {
>     port = 2587
>   }
> }
> ssl_cert = </etc/letsencrypt/live/mydomain/fullchain.pem
> ssl_client_ca_dir = /etc/ssl/certs
> ssl_dh = # hidden, use -P to show it
> ssl_key = # hidden, use -P to show it
> userdb {
>   args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf.ext
>   driver = sql
> }
> protocol lmtp {
>   info_log_path = /var/log/dovecot/lmtp.log
>   log_path = /var/log/dovecot/lmtp-errors.log
>   mail_plugins = fts sieve
>   postmaster_address = postmaster at mydomain
> }
> protocol lda {
>   info_log_path = /var/log/dovecot/lda.log
>   log_path = /var/log/dovecot/lda-errors.log
>   mail_plugins = fts sieve
> }
>
>
> --
> Best regards,
> Odhiambo WASHINGTON,
> Nairobi,KE
> +254 7 3200 0004/+254 7 2274 3223
> "Oh, the cruft.", grep ^[^#] :-)
>


-- 
Best regards,
Odhiambo WASHINGTON,
Nairobi,KE
+254 7 3200 0004/+254 7 2274 3223
"Oh, the cruft.", grep ^[^#] :-)
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