Thank you very much for your reply, Mr. Bosch. Still trying to iron it out.

If you are using the new Sieve implementation, you can use the new multiscript feature. It is not explained on the wiki yet (I should give the new Sieve its own page), but things are outlined in the configuration section of the INSTALL file:

I'm still getting permissions errors like when I wasn't using 'sieve_before':

dovecot: deliver(user1): sieve: binary open(/dovecot/global.svbin)
failed: Permission denied dovecot: deliver(user1): sieve: open(/dovecot/global.svbin.tmp)
failed for binary save: Permission denied dovecot: deliver(user1): sieve: rename(/dovecot/global.before.svbin.tmp,
/dovecot/global.before.svbin) failed for binary save: Permission denied

A normal user (user1) doesn't have permission to do anything in the directory that stores the global.sieve/.svbin files, which is owned by dovecot:dovecot.

Has anyone got a successful installation of a global Sieve file they could describe? Using the multiscript feature would be great, if you have done it successfully. I very much appreciate the way this is supposed to go, according to the docs, and I really hope to find someone who is actually using a global Sieve file successfully, so I can learn from their example. I'm sure it's something simple, but I just can't see the problem in my own installation.

Thanks a lot. (Local Sieve files work fine, but I still have a need for a global filter.)

James

Yes, it works using your solution:

dovecot.conf:

sieve_global_path = /usr/local/etc/sieve/global/default.sieve

/usr/local/etc/sieve/global/default.sieve:

keep;

Thanks,

Andrés Fernando Yacopino

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Stephan Bosch escribió:

Andrés Yacopino wrote:

...

I am testing yet this version of sieve with dovecot 1.2 beta I have done in dovecot.conf:

protocols = imap imaps pop3 pop3s managesieve mail_plugins = quota sieve sieve_before = /usr/local/etc/sieve/global/.global.dovecot.sieve

more /usr/local/etc/sieve/global/.global.dovecot.sieve:

require "fileinto"; if exists "X-Spam-Flag" { fileinto "spam"; }

I have found that i need a personal script in the home directory to execute this global script, if the user script isn't exists this before script is not run.

Personal script:

more .dovecot.sieve:

require "include";

I am planning to use this to filter spam in a global script and deploy managed sieve with avelsize plugin with squirrelmail to let users configure their vacation messages

I would prefer to have independent global scripts from personal scripts.

Yes, this problem was pointed out before. For now, you can work around this by setting a sieve_global_path= pointing to a script containing only 'keep;'. This makes sure the global script is executed, because then there is a default alternative for the personal script if it is missing for a particular user.

I'll fix this in the course of this week.

Regards,

Stephan.