[Dovecot] Global sieve filter ignored (Long)

[Daniel Luttermann]

Larry Crouch wrote on 22.07.2010:

> Lately though I considered filtering spam with a global sieve filter.
> I created the /var/vmail/globalsieverc file which contains:
> require ["fileinto"];
> # Move spam to spam folder
> if header :contains "X-Spam-Flag" ["YES"] {
> fileinto "spam";
> stop;
> }

> Made certain it was owned by vmail.

> Changed the last stanza of /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf which in labeled 
> plugin:
> sieve_global_path = /var/vmail/globalsieverc

> Restarted dovecot

> Sent a known spam email (GTUBE)

> The resulting email is always delivered to INBOX:
> 2010-07-19 03:35:19 deliver(xxx at xxx.xxx): Info: msgid=: saved mail to INBOX

Have you enabled sieve for the LDA? Example:

protocol lda {
  mail_plugins = sieve
  ...
  ...
}


--
Daniel