"error: number of redirect actions exceeds policy limit"

22 Jan 2015


      Greetings,
after testing a lot with my system I have to write to this list to ask
for help from the cummunity.
My system:
plugin {

Ubuntu 12.04.5 LTS
Dovecot 2.0.19
Dovecot config (extract)
––––– 8< –––––

sieve = ~/.dovecot.sieve
sieve_dir = ~/sieve
sieve_max_redirects = 10
}
––––– >8––––––

Sieve filter rules
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require ["copy"];

rule:[Alles weiterleiten]
if true
{
redirect "mail_1@mydomain";
redirect "mail_2@mydomain";
redirect "mail_3@mydomain";
redirect "mail_4@mydomain";
redirect "mail_5@mydomain";
redirect "mail_6@mydomain";
keep;
stop;
}
––––– >8––––––
Problem scenario:
With the redirect-filter (see above) Dovecot redirects a incoming
email to the first address and stops withe the message "error: number of
redirect actions exceeds policy limit" (.dovecot.sieve.log).
In my mail.log I see the message "Error: sieve: execution of script
$PATH/.dovecot.sieve failed, but implicit keep was successful (user
logfile $PATH/.dovecot.sieve.log may reveal additional details)".
If I reduce the count of recipients to four – which is the Dovecot
default number – everything will redireced as expected.
I only could find an old problem report here [0] where as the posted
solution doesn't work for me (as you can see above).
(Also I tried the rule "redirect :copy" that doesn't changed something …)
[0] http://dovecot.org/pipermail/dovecot/2012-August/085038.html
→ Is this problem known? – Is there a solution for that problem?
Thanks a lot and best regards! – Kai
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Kai Sommer
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