From what I see here I am not quite sure whether you have understood the ManageSieve protocol. The putscript command as specified above expects you to provide 2049 bytes of script directly after entering the command. It will not accept other commands until it has fully read the 2049 bytes. (Refer to the specification http://tools.ietf.org/id/draft-martin-managesieve-08.txt). The listing above shows no script and a logout command in stead. You indicate that you have to cancel the connection using Ctrl-C which is consistent with that behavior.
The following similar protocol session should show how it is done with a trivially small script:
OK "Logged in." CAPABILITY "IMPLEMENTATION" "dovecot" "SIEVE" "comparator-i;ascii-numeric fileinto reject vacation imapflags notify include envelope body relational regex subaddress copy" OK "Capability completed." PUTSCRIPT "hotseflots" {6+} keep; OK "Putscript completed." GETSCRIPT "hotseflots" {6} keep; OK "Getscript completed. SETACTIVE "hotseflots" OK "Setactive completed." LISTSCRIPTS "phpscript" "hotseflots" ACTIVE "frop" "ingo" "fruts" OK "Listscripts completed."
BTW, it is not useful to upload a script called .dovecot.sieve on the server. For managesieve, the .dovecot.sieve script (as looked for by the Sieve plugin) is a symbolic link that points to the actual active script in the sieve storage directory. That also explains the warning in your follow-up e-mail, indicating that a normal file is still in place. When you upload and activate a new script, the situation is resolved. The regular file previously called .dovecot.sieve is moved to the sieve directory as dovecot-orig.sieve (and listed as dovecot-orig). However, if you consider your current sieve script to be important you are advised to back it up before uploading and activating a script through managesieve.
OK. I understand all this. Thank you for the reference to the specification. Apart from the wrong name, I was using PUTSCRIPT instead of GETSCRIPT. Now, where do I have to put the scripts to GET them? My home directory does not work, nor do the /var/mail/user/ and /var/mail/user/Maildir directories. I get a "Script does not exist" response, though the script is in all three locations.
Thank you for all the assistance
Cam
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