Sieve Symlink Creation

dovecot at ptld.com dovecot at ptld.com
Fri Aug 26 15:43:51 UTC 2022


> On 08-26-2022 11:34 am, João Silva wrote:
> As far as I understood the sieve location is relative to the home.

True.


> In my server I kept the default
> sieve = file:~/sieve;active=~/.dovecot.sieve
> In your definition there are ../ in the mix

Yes, mine is "active=~/../_sieve/.active_sieve" which has ~ same as yours.
And /../ is a relative path feature, you don't see /../ in full absolute paths.

So how is using ~ and a relative path creating an absolute symlink?
How do you prevent it so dovecot only creates a relative symlink?


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