Thanks for taking the time to respond Patrick.

Previously (in v1.0) we did not need the plugin section: sieve = mailfilter.sieve

Is this now required even when just wanting to use a global sieve script? We have ~100 users so manually adding a mailfilter.sieve file to each users directory will be very time consuming. Are we able to input the full path name to our global script instead, i.e. /etc/dovecot-sieve/global?

I tried using sieve_global_path = /etc/dovecot-sieve/global in the 'lda protocol' section but, as stated, the script seems to be ignored. The local delivery agent is working but everything gets delivered to the users inbox instead of being filtered.

Gavin

On Tue, 2008-07-08 at 10:36 +0800, Patrick Nagel wrote:

Hi Gavin,

On Tuesday 08 July 2008, you wrote:

...

We have been using dovecot v1:1.0.15-1_72 and dovecot-sieve v1.0.3-7 very successfully for many months but I've been unable to get dovecot-sieve to work with the latest 1.1 release. The new release seems to completely ignore our global sieve script no matter what we do.

Is anyone else using the atrpms-stable rpms packages and able to get dovecot-sieve to work correctly?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Gavin

yes, we're using the following

dovecot Version: 1.1.1 Release: 2_76.el5

and

dovecot-sieve Version: 1.1.5 Release: 8.el5

from atrpms, and sieve works as it did before.

Sieve relevant configuration looks as follows:

• in section 'protocol lda': mail_plugins = cmusieve sieve_global_dir = /storage/sieve

• in section 'plugin': sieve = mailfilter.sieve

In each user's home directory who should have sieve filtering activated, we place a mailfilter.sieve and in there we include one or more global and/or personal sieve scripts.

For example:

• /home/john.doe/mailfilter.sieve: require "include"; include :personal "vacation.sieve"; include :global "spam.sieve";

spam.sieve resides in the /storage/sieve directory.

Hope this helps. Patrick.

Got some time tonight to try a few things on our test server and I was able to get it going... all I was missing was the line in the plugin section. For the record I was able to point it to our previous global sieve script, i.e. sieve = /etc/dovecot-sieve/global

Thanks for your help Patrick!

Gavin

On Tue, 2008-07-08 at 13:40 +0800, Patrick Nagel wrote:

Hi Gavin,

On Tuesday 08 July 2008, Mailing List wrote:

...

Previously (in v1.0) we did not need the plugin section: sieve = mailfilter.sieve

Is this now required even when just wanting to use a global sieve script? We have ~100 users so manually adding a mailfilter.sieve file to each users directory will be very time consuming.

Of course we created those mailfilter.sieve files automatically with a few lines of shell script, so it's not that much of a hassle. It also gives the benefit of being able to easily add user-specific rules.

But I don't think it is required - having only one global script should work, according to the documentation.

...

Are we able to input the full path name to our global script instead, i.e. /etc/dovecot-sieve/global?

I think we did something like that before, but that may have been with 1.0...

...

I tried using sieve_global_path = /etc/dovecot-sieve/global in the 'lda protocol' section but, as stated, the script seems to be ignored. The local delivery agent is working but everything gets delivered to the users inbox instead of being filtered.

According to the Wiki (http://wiki.dovecot.org/LDA/Sieve) this should indeed work. Did you check deliver's log - nothing interesting in there? Are you sure the sieve script works? Maybe some syntax changed, and the version 1.1 interpreter fails? You can check with sievec if the script (still) compiles correctly.

Patrick.