On Mon, 30 Aug 2010 13:15:43 -0400, Jason Bleazard jason.dovecot@bleazard.net wrote:

Hi, new to Dovecot, forgive me if I'm missing something basic...

I'm trying to figure out if there's a way to use a couple of custom rules alongside ManageSieve. Most of the time I like the ManageSieve interface in Roundcube, but there's one rule that I can't get it to do the way I want (it's a notify rule, and I don't like the way Roundcube constructs the notify). I figured out how to write it by hand, but of course I can't put my own rules in Roundcube's file or it gets really confused. I tried adding an include to the generated file, but Roundcube politely removes it for me the next time I use the rule editor. (Squirrelmail doesn't seem to be any better in this regard.)

I thought I could do something like sieve_before = ~/sieve/custom.sieve

my installation support sieve_before scripting

quote part of dovecot -n

plugin { plugin = autocreate managesieve sieve sieve = ~/.dovecot.sieve sieve_before = /var/sieve-scripts/roundcube.sieve sieve_dir = ~/sieve sieve_global_path = whatever }

but that doesn't seem to work. I couldn't even see any evidence in the log that it attempted to look at that file. Apparently sieve_before isn't meant to work on a per-user basis.

If I do a global sieve_before, can I have it "include :personal"? If so, what's going to happen with the script compilation? From what I understand, it can't be compiled globally, since each user has a different custom rule set.

Am I trying to do the impossible here?

Thanks for any ideas, Jason Bleazard