[Dovecot] Dovecot Sieve

[J4]

On 01/18/2011 01:16 PM, J4 wrote:
> On 01/18/2011 12:55 PM, Robert Schetterer wrote:
>> Am 18.01.2011 12:48, schrieb J4:
>> [SNIP]
> Hi,
>
> Ok, then I'll post here.   
>
> I asked because it is only now, after three weeks of trying to
> understand Sieve and how to filter spam out, that I realised that one
> needs a separate programme to enable Sieve in Dovecot.  I had thought
> that it was included in Dovecot ,abd one only had to enable a plugin
> reference in the dovecot.conf.   Because another programme has to be
> installed, I had thought that it was not part of Dovecot proper, and
> would need to be addressed to another list.  I know that I shall run
> into Sieve related config problems, but did not want to burden this list
> with these.
>
> However, I compiled Dovecot Sieve and installed it into the default of
> /usr/local, and it looks like I have a second installation of Dovecot
> :(  I downloaded Sieve from wget
> http://dovecot.org/releases/1.2/dovecot-1.2.16.tar.gz.  Looks like the
> install guide I found that said to install Sieve had a typo' and the URL
> was for the whole of Dovecot.
>
> i) Does anyone know where I can download Dovecot Sieve from?  
> ii) Is there a way of removing all the files I installed from the
> previous 'make instal'l I did?   I tried a 'make uninstall', but this
> did not remove everything.
>
> I know this looks compleatly braindead to anyone else reading this
> list...  myself included ... buts too late ( in both cases ).
Question ii) has been solved ( I think ) :
cd /usr/local; find | grep dovecot > /tmp/a; for i in `cat /tmp/a` ; do
rm -r $i;done
Seems to have worked!