[Dovecot] delivers mail to bad directory(prefix) using sieve filters

Radim Roska radim.roska at gmail.com
Thu Jan 8 22:14:24 EET 2009


ok..thx

On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 4:03 PM, Timo Sirainen <tss at iki.fi> wrote:

> What I meant was that it should be possible for you to not use the
> "INBOX." namespace prefix at all with Dovecot. Then this Sieve problem
> is gone.
>
> Other than that, there's really no other solution except to upgrade to
> v1.1.
>
> On Thu, 2009-01-08 at 11:58 +0100, Radim Roska wrote:
> > ok..i guess i have said it not very precisely. Anyway that was not the
> > important part of the question :).
> >
> > problem is that sieve filters eg.
> >
> > header :contains "Subject" "test"
> > {
> > fileinto "INBOX.a";
> > }
> >
> > will move mail
> > deliver(tester at imap): 2009-01-08 03:59:36 Info:
> > msgid=<20090108025936.3BB551D31CB at localhost>: saved mail to INBOX.a
> >
> > thats nice..but since dovecot is configured as it is. It appends INBOX to
> > this. which means it forward mail to INBOX.INBOX.a
> > ( i cannot change this configuration since all users already use it as it
> > is)
> >
> > So the problem is in dovecot..its clear from mail here
> > http://www.dovecot.org/list/dovecot/2007-September/025415.html
> >
> > Any hints what to do with that?? :)
> >
> > Main question is, when do you expect that dovecot 1.2 will be in debian
> > repositories.
> >
> >
> > Thanks
> > R.
> >
> > On Sat, Jan 3, 2009 at 10:40 PM, Darren Pilgrim <
> > list_dovecot at bluerosetech.com> wrote:
> >
> > > Timo Sirainen wrote:
> > >
> > >> On Jan 1, 2009, at 12:05 PM, Radim Roska wrote:
> > >>
> > >>  Squirrelmail does not allow to create folders without prefix.
> > >>>
> > >>
> > >> Really?
> > >>
> > >
> > > No.  There's a configurable setting that creates folders under INBOX by
> > > default; however, Squirrelmail can create top-level folders and
> sub-folders
> > > of any folder.
> > >
>


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