Bruce A. Mallett wrote:

I've been simultaneously learning about dovecot and experimenting with the 1.2.alpha4. To start I built an rpm under CentOS 5.2 from: dovecot-1.2.alpha4.tar.gz dovecot-1.2-managesieve-0.11.2.tar.gz dovecot-1.2.alpha4-managesieve-0.11.2.diff.gz dovecot-1.2.alpha4.tar.gz dovecot-1.2-sieve-0.1.2.tar.gz

and then setup with mysql to use virtual users. Mail-wise, it all works. :)

Where I'm having trouble is with the managesieve part. I find that when I activate a sieve script I get a symlink() failure message in /var/log/maillog similar to this:

Dec 2 05:12:47 hostname dovecot: MANAGESIEVE(account@hostname.com): sieve-storage: Creating symlink() hostname.com/account//.dovecot.sieve to /usr/local/virtual/hostname.com/account/sieve/Test.sieve failed: No such file or directory

I began to chase this first by inserting i_info() calls into various points of the managesieve build and later by attaching to the process with gdb. I can see that in sieve_storage_script_activate() the storage->active_path member is incomplete (i.e., is not a full, absolute path name) and the cwd is "/tmp", thus the symlink() call fails.

Based on what I've been reading in the documentation, shouldn't the system have resolved the "home" area for the mail to be the same as what is determined for the virtual user mail area? Using the README in the alpha4 package I've found that I can get it to work by adding the following after the "protocol manageseive {}" section:

plugin { sieve=/usr/local/virtual/%d/%n/.dovecot.sieve sieve_storage=/usr/local/virtual/%d/%n/sieve }

While that helps, I'm a little confused as to why I need to do this. I believe that the documentation states that the sieve defaults to .dovecot.sieve under the MAIL_LOCATION directory. So it is not clear to me if I am doing something wrong, if there is an oversight in the software and/or documentation (or perhaps my reading of it), or is it really necessary to specify the same information multiple times?

      - Bruce

Here is some output that may be of use:

-bash-3.2# dovecot -n # 1.2.alpha4: /etc/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.18-8.1.8.el5xen x86_64 CentOS release 5.2 (Final) ext3 info_log_path: /var/log/dovecot.log protocols: imap imaps pop3 pop3s managesieve login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login login_executable(default): /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(imap): /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(pop3): /usr/libexec/dovecot/pop3-login login_executable(managesieve): /usr/libexec/dovecot/managesieve-login max_mail_processes: 100 first_valid_uid: 150 last_valid_uid: 150 mail_location: maildir:/usr/local/virtual/%d/%n mail_executable(default): /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap mail_executable(imap): /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap mail_executable(pop3): /usr/libexec/dovecot/pop3 mail_executable(managesieve): /usr/libexec/dovecot/managesieve mail_plugin_dir(default): /usr/lib64/dovecot/imap mail_plugin_dir(imap): /usr/lib64/dovecot/imap mail_plugin_dir(pop3): /usr/lib64/dovecot/pop3 mail_plugin_dir(managesieve): /usr/lib64/dovecot/managesieve auth default: mechanisms: plain digest-md5 debug: yes debug_passwords: yes passdb: driver: sql args: /etc/dovecot/dovecot-mysql.conf userdb: driver: sql args: /etc/dovecot/dovecot-mysql.conf plugin: sieve: /usr/local/virtual/%d/%n/.dovecot.sieve sieve_storage: /usr/local/virtual/%d/%n/sieve

-bash-3.2# grep -v '^ *\(#.*\)\?$' /etc/dovecot/dovecot-mysql.conf driver = mysql connect = host=/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock dbname=postfix user=postfix password=postfix default_pass_scheme = MD5-CRYPT user_query =
SELECT maildir as home, 150 AS uid, 12 AS gid FROM mailbox WHERE username = '%u' password_query = select password from mailbox where username='%u'

Bruse,

I was having a problem like this as well. I modified sieve-storage.c to fix this. It was not expanding '~' to the user's home directory. I changed to using virtual home directories for other reasons. They don't have that problem. For what its worth, here are the changes I made. Its a bit of a hack...:

diff -c sieve-storage.c.org sieve-storage.c *** sieve-storage.c.org 2008-11-25 17:13:40.000000000 -0600 --- sieve-storage.c 2008-11-25 21:27:25.000000000 -0600

*** 130,135 **** --- 130,138 ---- if (root_dir[len-1] == '/') root_dir = t_strndup(root_dir, len-1);

•  if ( root_dir[0] == '~' && root_dir[1] == '/') {

•     root_dir = t_strconcat(getenv("HOME"), "/", root_dir + 2, NULL);

•  }

  /* Superior mail directory must exist; it is never auto-created by the
  • sieve-storage. */

*** 184,190 **** if ( pathlen != 0 && link_path[pathlen-1] != '/') return t_strconcat(link_path, "/", NULL);

! return t_strdup(link_path); }

struct sieve_storage *sieve_storage_create_from_mail(const char *data, const char *user) --- 187,193 ---- if ( pathlen != 0 && link_path[pathlen-1] != '/') return t_strconcat(link_path, "/", NULL);

! return t_strdup( *link_path == '/' ? link_path + 1 : link_path ); }

struct sieve_storage *sieve_storage_create_from_mail(const char *data, const char *user)

Regards,

Andy