[Sieve] Unable to fileinto subfolders

James Lott james at lottspot.com
Fri Jul 17 05:29:32 UTC 2015


Goodness gracious. I have no idea how I overlooked that. You are, of course, 
correct, and that immediately resolved the issue. Thanks for the help getting 
that sorted!

On Friday, July 17, 2015 06:56:39 Christian Kivalo wrote:
> Am 17. Juli 2015 04:10:50 MESZ, schrieb james at lottspot.com:
> >Hello again list!
> 
> Hello,
> 
> >require "fileinto";
> >if header :contains "Subject" "[SORT ME]" { fileinto "INBOX.Sorted"; }
> >
> >Yields the following error:
> >
> >Jul 16 18:54:46 smtp dovecot: lmtp(james at lottspot.vpn): Error:
> >DiJmNGZgqFWLFAEANWXNPw: sieve: 
msgid=<4973528.yvy4Yu8Tt4 at arch_project>:
> >
> >failed to store into mailbox 'INBOX.Sorted': Character not allowed in
> >mailbox name: '.'
> 
> [snip]
> 
> >namespace inbox {
> >
> >   type = private
> >   separator = /
> >   prefix =
> >   inbox = yes
> 
> Your path does not exist. You use INBOX.Sorted in your sieve script but have
> set / as separator in the namespace config.
> 
> Sieve expects a directory "INBOX.Sorted" in your maildir, the dirctory
> probably exists as "INBOX" with a subdirectory "Sorted" inside.
> 
> Changeing the fileinto in the sieve script to "INBOX/Sorted" ahould sort
> things out.
> 
> 
> regards
>  - christian

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