Re-sieve emails

[Aki Tuomi]

> On 29/09/2020 09:09 @lbutlr <kremels at kreme.com> wrote:
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> Is it possible to take the contents of a mailbox and feed them to the account's .active_sieve file for reprocessing?
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> (For example, when editing the sieve file for my list account I introduced a typo, so a hundred or some list messages ended up in the inbox instead of filed properly into the maildir hierarchy. Not a huge deal, as it was simple enough to move them manually, but it got me wondering.
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> This would also be useful for testing.
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You can use imap sieve refilter. https://doc.dovecot.org/configuration_manual/sieve/plugins/imapfilter_sieve/

Aki