On 17-11-2021 09:38, Remy Zandwijk wrote:
On 16 Nov 2021, at 21:43, Kees van Vloten keesvanvloten@gmail.com wrote:
On 15-11-2021 23:04, dovecot@ptld.com wrote:
On 11-15-2021 3:46 pm, Kees van Vloten wrote: I am trying to move incoming mails into subfolders with this sieve script:
require ["fileinto", "variables", "mailbox"]; if header :matches "Delivered-To" "*@*" { fileinto :create "INBOX/${2}"; } I am not using variables and my folders are pre-created. But just to give you a starting point, this is what works using maildir++ format with default directory layout. https://doc.dovecot.org/configuration_manual/mail_location/Maildir/
require ["fileinto"]; # rule:[Dovecot] if header :contains "sender" "@dovecot.org" { fileinto "INBOX.Dovecot"; }ok, I am trying to start simple:
removed the mail_plugin "listescape"
set mail_location = maildir:%h/%d/%n/Maildir
and changed the sieve script into:
require ["fileinto", "variables", "mailbox"];
if header :contains "Delivered-To" "@example.com" { fileinto :create "INBOX.example"; }
Running sieve from the cmdline returns:
error: msgid=76c62f93-527a-d8d9-f787-65926d9c3e25@domain.com: fileinto action: failed to store into mailbox 'INBOX.example': Character not allowed in mailbox name: '.'. sieve-filter(vmail): Info: sieve: msgid=76c62f93-527a-d8d9-f787-65926d9c3e25@domain.com: left message in mailbox 'INBOX'
For some reason the :create seems to have a problem with the folder separator '.'
Any clue how to get '.example' recognized as a subfolder?
- Kees In your previous email, you wrote:
separator = ~
You might want to change that to:
separator =
(Which defaults to a dot as mailbox separator)
-Remy
It is indeed the separator, thanks Remy! The confusion came from the different kind of separators defined in multiple places and also used in different places.
To summarize:
Each namespace defines a separator, but you must use the same in all namespaces (why isn't this a global setting?).
Each LAYOUT="<x>" has an implied separator on its storage. Maildir++ uses the dot, "fs" uses slash., this is the separator visible on the filesystem.
IMAP has a separator on the wire, which then translates to the LAYOUT separator on the filesystem.
Separator conflicts between imap and layout separator can be avoided with the listescape plugin
To use a dot or a slash in folder names neither one should be used as the namespace separator.
To have IMAP folders stored in a filesystem hierarchy of subdirectories LAYOUT=fs should be used.
As it turns out the namespace separator is the one to be used in sieve scripts, whereas I actually used the LAYOUT separator.
In any case where to use what separator was not immediately clear to me. The sieve docs and examples on wiki/doc site do not mention the namespace separator at all. It would be helpful to put a remark or pointer there. But now it works (famous last words) :-), thanks again.
- Kees