Replacement for antispam plugin

[George Kontostanos]

On Sun, Feb 12, 2017 at 8:56 PM, Stephan Bosch <stephan at rename-it.nl> wrote:
> Op 2/12/2017 om 5:36 PM schreef George Kontostanos:
>> On Sun, Feb 12, 2017 at 3:52 PM, Aki Tuomi <aki.tuomi at dovecot.fi> wrote:
>>
>>>> On February 10, 2017 at 10:06 AM Aki Tuomi <aki.tuomi at dovecot.fi> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Hi!
>>>> Since antispam plugin is deprecated and we would really prefer people
>>>> not to use it, we wrote instructions on how to replace it with
>>>> IMAPSieve. Comments and suggestions are most welcome.
>>>>
>>>> https://wiki.dovecot.org/HowTo/AntispamWithSieve
>>>>
>>>> ---
>>>> Aki Tuomi
>>>> Dovecot oy
>>> Hi everyone,
>>>
>>> thank you all for your feedback, questions and comments. We have upgraded
>>> the documentation based on this, including information how to exclude Trash
>>> folder in ham script.
>>>
>>> Aki
>>>
>>
>> Thank you all very much. I am now running into a very weird issue. Whenever
>> an Junk email is “seen” I get the following error:
>>
>> Debug: sieve: vnd.dovecot.execute extension: no bin or socket directory
>> specified; extension is unconfigured (both sieve_execute_bin_dir and
>> sieve_execute_socket_dir are not set)
>> Feb 12 18:02:54 imap(user at domain): Debug: imapsieve: Static mailbox rule
>> [1]: mailbox=`Junk' from=`*' causes=(COPY) =>
>> before=`file:/usr/local/lib/dovecot/sieve/report-spam.sieve' after=(none)
>> Feb 12 18:02:54 imap(user at dmain): Debug: imapsieve: Static mailbox rule
>> [2]: mailbox=`*' from=`Junk' causes=(COPY) =>
>> before=`file:/usr/local/lib/dovecot/sieve/report-ham.sieve' after=(none)
>
> That is not an error. That is merely a debug message indicating that the
> vnd.dovecot.execute extension is unconfigured.
>
> Don't enable that extension if you're not using the "execute"
> command/test. Yes, it is in the example, but it has no function either.
> Only the vnd.dovecot.pipe extension is actually used ("pipe" command).
>
>> Also it automatically creates a .spamassassin/ folder in the user:
>>
>> -rw-------  1 vmail  vmail    136 Feb 10 17:33 .dovecot.lda-dupes
>> lrwx------  1 vmail  vmail     17 Mar 13  2016 .dovecot.sieve@ ->
>> managesieve.sieve
>> -rw-------  1 vmail  vmail    322 Feb 11 03:02 .dovecot.svbin
>> drwx------  2 vmail  vmail    512 Feb 12 18:04 .spamassassin/
>> drwx------  5 vmail  vmail    512 Feb 10 17:32 Drafts/
>> drwx------  5 vmail  vmail    512 Feb 12 18:09 Junk/
>> drwx------  5 vmail  vmail    512 Feb 11 17:36 Saved/
>> drwx------  5 vmail  vmail    512 Jan 16 11:55 Sent/
>> drwx------  5 vmail  vmail    512 Feb 12 18:09 Trash/
>> drwx------  2 vmail  vmail   1024 Feb 12 18:07 cur/
>> -rw-------  1 vmail  vmail     21 Mar 13  2016 dovecot-acl-list
>> -rw-------  1 vmail  vmail     68 Oct 17 13:19 dovecot-keywords
>> -rw-------  1 vmail  vmail    245 Feb 12 18:07 dovecot-uidlist
>> -rw-------  1 vmail  vmail      8 Jun  9  2016 dovecot-uidvalidity
>> -r--r--r--  1 vmail  vmail      0 Mar 12  2016 dovecot-uidvalidity.56e48129
>> -rw-------  1 vmail  vmail    640 Feb 11 22:24 dovecot.index
>> -rw-------  1 vmail  vmail  27788 Feb 12 18:07 dovecot.index.cache
>> -rw-------  1 vmail  vmail  25996 Feb 12 18:07 dovecot.index.log
>> -rw-------  1 vmail  vmail    192 Feb 12 16:04 dovecot.mailbox.log
>> -rw-------  1 vmail  vmail    181 Feb 10 17:34 managesieve.sieve
>> drwx------  2 vmail  vmail    512 Feb 12 17:46 new/
>> -rw-------  1 vmail  vmail     39 Jun  9  2016 subscriptions
>> drwx------  2 vmail  vmail    512 Feb 12 18:04 tmp/
>>
>> Any ideas ? I am attaching my config.
>
> The likely scenario is that the sa-learn tool is creating a hidden
> directory inside the $HOME directory of the user for user-specific state
> information. According to your mail_home and mail_location
> configuration, that is the same directory as the INBOX mailbox. That is
> why this may be interpreted as a mailbox by the maildir format. It is
> generally a bad idea to have those equal; you should put the mail
> location in a sub-directory of the home directory to prevent problems
> like this.
>
> https://wiki.dovecot.org/VirtualUsers/Home
>
> Regards,
>
> Stephan.
>
>
>
That makes perfect sense. I might need to find a way to migrate now to
the correct structure.

Thanks


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George Kontostanos
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