[Dovecot] Sieve was installed but doesn't work or log

[Jim McNamara]

On 05/15/2013 08:55 AM, Jim McNamara wrote:
> On 05/14/2013 06:55 PM, Noel Butler wrote:
>> On Tue, 2013-05-14 at 12:49 -0400, Jim McNamara wrote:
>>
>>> Hello everyone.
>>>
>>> I have dovecot version 1.2.8 installed from source. This morning I
>>> installed the sieve plugin to sort emails, and though the install
>>> reported no errors, the plugin doesn't seem to function, and no mention
>>> of it is made in the logs when I turn on verbose logging.
>>>
>>
>> with version 1.2.x  I always found cmusieve to behave nicer.
>>
>> Though, if you are installing from source, why the hell  are you using
>> something so old?
>> 1.2.17 is the latest in the now unsupported 1.2 series, but if you are
>> building from source,  try  2.1.16 and dovecot-2.1-pigeonhole-0.3.5,
>> I've only recently (months ago) moved to 2.1 from 1.2, and it appears
>> smoother, and lot of niggly things like hung  *-login processes on busy
>> servers have gone away, without bench testing, I'd even say its more
>> resource friendly (at least in NFS (without director) configurations)
>>
>> Are you sure your sieve scripts are valid? do they get compiled?
>>
>>
>
> I believe in the past there was some issues with newer dovecot when 
> using qmail and vpopmail, but it has been years since I tried it. I'll 
> compile the source this morning and see if I can get deliveries to 
> work without sieve, then I'll proceed with the pigeonhole install.
>
> My sieve script passed the test on 
> http://libsieve-php.sourceforge.net/ , they are not complicated 
> scripts at all, literally if sender is A, move to subfolder A of 
> inbox. It was just for testing. The reason I assumed there was a 
> problem was the complete lack of logging. Also when I moved the 
> default sieve script:
>
> sieve_global_path: /usr/local/etc/default.sieve
>
> and the user script:
>
> sieve: /home/vpopmail/domains/%d/%n/sieve
>
> there was no logging that indicated sieve couldn't run because of a 
> lack of any sieve scripts. That plus the single sorting rule not 
> working quickly made me think sieve simply didn't install or work.
>
> Thank you for the help, I'll post back with the success/failure of a 
> more recent version.
>
Thank you for the solid suggestion, Noel! I now have Dovecot 2.2.1 along 
with Pigeonhole 0.4.0. All is working well at present. The largest 
issues I encountered was getting the configuration changed and 
functional from my previous 1.2.8 to 2.0. Once that was accomplished 
things more or less proceeded well. Managesieve works wonderfully, can 
dovecot creates the .sieve directory and its subdirectory .sieve/tmp 
correctly, the thunderbird plugin for sieve is able to connect and 
everything works, compilation happens automatically and the sieve 
scripts are functional.

I use John Simpson's Qmail patch/setup on the server, I wasn't able to 
find a current dovecot config that worked with vpopmail without mysql. 
Here is my current config which works for me in this setup:

root at hostname:/home/jim# doveconf -n
# 2.2.1: /usr/local/etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf
# OS: Linux 3.2.0-4-amd64 x86_64 Debian 7.0
auth_cache_size = 10 M
auth_default_realm = mail.domain.com
auth_mechanisms = plain login
auth_socket_path = /usr/local/var/run/dovecot/auth-userdb
default_internal_user = vpopmail
default_login_user = vpopmail
first_valid_gid = 89
first_valid_uid = 89
hostname = mail.domain.com
last_valid_gid = 89
last_valid_uid = 89
lda_mailbox_autocreate = yes
lda_mailbox_autosubscribe = yes
log_path = /dev/stderr
mail_access_groups = 89
mail_gid = 89
mail_location = maildir:%h/Maildir
mail_plugins = " quota"
mail_privileged_group = 89
mail_uid = 89
managesieve_notify_capability = mailto
managesieve_sieve_capability = fileinto reject envelope 
encoded-character vacation subaddress comparator-i;ascii-numeric 
relational regex imap4flags copy include variables body enotify 
environment mailbox date ihave spamtest spamtestplus
namespace inbox {
   inbox = yes
   location =
   prefix =
   separator = .
}
passdb {
   driver = vpopmail
}
plugin {
   sieve = ~/.sieve/dovecot.sieve
   sieve_dir = ~/.sieve
   sieve_extensions = +spamtest +spamtestplus +relational 
+comparator-i;ascii-numeric
}
postmaster_address = postmaster at mail.domain.com
protocols = imap pop3 lmtp sieve
sendmail_path = /var/qmail/bin/sendmail
service auth-worker {
   user = $default_internal_user
}
service auth {
   unix_listener auth-userdb {
     group = vchkpw
     mode = 0600
     user = vpopmail
   }
   user = $default_internal_user
}
service managesieve-login {
   inet_listener sieve {
     port = 4190
   }
   service_count = 1
   vsz_limit = 64 M
}
ssl = required
ssl_cert = </var/qmail/control/servercert.pem
ssl_key = </var/qmail/control/servercert.priv
userdb {
   args = quota_template=quota_rule=*:backend=%q
   driver = vpopmail
}
protocol lda {
   mail_plugins = " quota sieve"
}
protocol imap {
   mail_plugins = " quota imap_quota"
}
protocol pop3 {
   mail_plugins = " quota quota"
}