issues with doveadm sieve commands

[aki.tuomi at dovecot.fi]

> On April 30, 2016 at 9:41 PM Stephan Bosch <stephan at rename-it.nl> wrote:
> 
> 
> Op 4/10/2016 om 2:49 PM schreef Michael Grimm:
> > Hi
> >
> > This is dovecot-pigeonhole 0.4.13 and dovecot 2.2.23 at FBSD 10.3-STABLE.
> >
> > I am used to run doveadm sieve commands for some time now whenever updating a sieve script. 
> >
> > Recently those commands fail with a user set explicitly, e.g.:
> >
> > 	mail> doveadm sieve list -u test
> > 	doveadm(root): Error: User doesn't exist
> >
> > When asking for all users, I do not run into any error:
> >
> > 	mail> doveadm sieve list -u '*'
> > 	user1 default ACTIVE
> > 	[snip]
> > 	test default ACTIVE
> >
> > 	mail> doveadm sieve list -A
> > 	user1 default ACTIVE
> > 	[snip]
> > 	test default ACTIVE
> >
> > That is true for all doveadm sieve commands, but other will work, like:
> >
> > 	mail> doveadm user -u test
> > 	userdb: test
> > 	  user      : test
> > 	  mail      : mdbox:/—path-to-maildir--/test
> > 	
> > Hmm, any idea what is going on? I do not know when those commands stopped to work, I didn't try to update my sieve scripts for some time now.
> 
> I believe something like this was fixed in Dovecot itself. At least I
> cannot reproduce this with the latest releases. Can you try those?
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Stephan.

There is an unfortunate bug in 2.2.23 doveadm in which mail commands ignore -u parameter. It is fixed in 2.2.24. You can use env USER=username doveadm sieve to work around it.

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Aki Tuomi