[Dovecot] Questions about using sieve

[Robin Atwood]

On Saturday 13 Sep 2008, Timo Sirainen wrote:
> On Sat, 2008-09-13 at 12:37 +0700, Robin Atwood wrote:
> > and I have added "mail_plugins = cmusieve" to protocol lda{}. I then
> > created a ".dovecot.sieve" script but am not sure where to place it. I
> > tried ~/ and ~/.imap but it never seems to get compiled.
>
> Home directory is correct.
>
> > Dovecot is running as a root
> > service so it should have access. Setting mail_debug=yes produces no
> > clues, so what should I be looking at?
>
> Sieve is used only by deliver binary, which isn't running as root.
> Sounds like you're never even calling it?

That was my impression! Since mail delivery is already working, I assumed I do 
not have to customise sendmail.cf. Is that not the case? I am not sure  I 
understand this deliver thing, I thought in my case it actually meant 
sendmail.

-Robin
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