Help with configuration?

[Aki Tuomi]

Hi!

You could also use

doveadm sieve put -u your-username default
doveadm sieve activate -u your-username default

to setup your sieve filter, it seems you're probably missing the active link.

Aki

> On 09/11/2022 23:29 EET Ellie McNeill <ellie at esm.me.uk> wrote:
> 
>  
> Thanks for some of the advice folks. I've got the delete/trash problem 
> solved, but I'm still having trouble getting sieve to work.
> 
> I've read the documentation and installed dovecot-sieve. I'm not 
> installing dovecot-managesieved at the moment though.
> 
> I have added 'sieve' to the mail_plugins= line on both 15-lda.conf and 
> 20-lmtp.conf files. I put a simple .dovecot.sieve script in my home 
> directory and tested it with sieve-test and the script works fine. 
> However, sieve itself is still not working. I have run 'doveadm reload' 
> a few times but it still won't work. What could I be overlooking?
> 
> Ellie
> 
> On 09/11/2022 06:20, Ellie McNeill wrote:
> > Hi, I'm running my own mail server on Debian 11 with exim and Dovecot 
> > 2.3.13. I have it working, but I'm seeking advice on further customising 
> > my setup. I'm using the Maildir++ format with some personal folders. I 
> > use IMAP to retrieve mail and Dovecot's submission server to send mail.
> > 
> > 1. I want to have incoming emails automatically placed in certain 
> > folders instead of 'Inbox' based on certain criteria. For example, I 
> > want all emails from PayPal to go into the 'PayPal' folder and all 
> > emails from the Debian mailing list to go into the 'Debian' folder. Can 
> > dovecot do this for me and what is the best approach?
> > 
> > 2. When I delete an email using my user client, it is only 'marked' as 
> > deleted (Thunderbird places a scored line through it, and a 'T' is added 
> > to the filename in the Maildir). How can I get dovecot to automatically 
> > move mail marked 'deleted' to the Trash folder each time?
> > 
> > I also want further delete operations on any mail in the 'Trash' folder 
> > to be permanently deleted.
> > 
> > 3. I want to hide my client IP address from the headers when submitting 
> > mail to Dovecot's submissiond, but I can't seem to find any way to 
> > disable this. I would prefer that recipients only see the server IP 
> > address, but not the IP address of the mail client which submitted it.
> > 
> > Regards,
> > Ellie
> > 
> > PS - When signing up for the mailing list, there was no selection 
> > ability on the question "Would you like to get replies to your mails 
> > only to the list, ie. add a Reply-To header?"