While setting up sieve on my email server I mistakenly setup a symlink (~/sieve/myfilter.svbin > ~/.dovecot.sieve) but I think that that should have been (~/sieve/myfilter.sieve > ~/.dovecot.sieve). I have fixed the mistake but dovecot/sieve still throws an error saying that the symlink still links to the wrong file.

I have made sure the symlink is fixed (it links to ~/sieve/myfilter.sieve) and I tried restarting dovecot and the server but nothing works. I still get the error and my sieve filters aren't processed.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

~# grep sieve /var/log/syslog | nano temp.save

Nov 23 01:32:09 1 dovecot: lda(steve@degga.net): Warning: sieve: file storage: Active Sieve script symlink /var/mail/vmail/degga.net/steve/.dovecot.sieve is broken: Invalid scriptname (points to myfilter.svbin).

vmail@1:/var/mail/vmail/degga.net/steve/mail$ ls -l -a #redacted irrelevant stuff lrwxrwxrwx 1 vmail vmail 14 Nov 23 02:43 .dovecot.sieve -> myfilter.sieve

vmail@1:/var/mail/vmail$ dovecot -n

2.2.22 (fe789d2): /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf

Pigeonhole version 0.4.13 (7b14904)

OS: Linux 4.4.0-47-generic x86_64 Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS ext4

auth_mechanisms = plain login auth_verbose = yes mail_home =/var/mail/vmail/%d/%n mail_location = maildir:/var/mail/vmail/%d/%n/mail:LAYOUT=fs managesieve_notify_capability = mailto managesieve_sieve_capability = fileinto reject envelope encoded-character vacation subaddress comparator-i;ascii-numeric relational regex imap4flags copy include variables body enotify environment mailbox date index ihave duplicate mime foreverypart extracttext namespace inbox { inbox = yes location = mailbox Drafts { auto = subscribe special_use = \Drafts } mailbox Junk { auto = subscribe special_use = \Junk } mailbox Sent { auto = subscribe special_use = \Sent } mailbox "Sent Messages" { special_use = \Sent } mailbox Trash { auto = subscribe special_use = \Trash } prefix = } passdb { args = username_format=%u scheme=ssha512 /etc/dovecot/passwd.db driver = passwd-file } plugin { sieve = ~/.dovecot.sieve sieve_after = /var/mail/vmail/sieve-after sieve_before = /var/mail/vmail/sieve-before sieve_dir = ~/sieve } protocols = imap sieve service auth { unix_listener /var/spool/postfix/private/dovecot-auth { group = postfix mode = 0660 user = postfix } }

SSL information redacted here.

userdb { args = uid=vmail gid=vmail home=/var/mail/vmail/%d/%n driver = static } protocol lda { deliver_log_format = msgid=%m: %$ mail_plugins = sieve postmaster_address =postmaster@degga.net quota_full_tempfail = yes rejection_reason = Your message to <%t> was automatically rejected:%n% r } protocol imap { imap_client_workarounds = delay-newmail tb-extra-mailbox-sep mail_max_userip_connections = 10 }