Is it possible to use sieve when delivering via pipe to the dovecot deliver command ?

[Thomas Carrié]

Thank you Stephan,

I found log location with the command you have suggested.

From the log I understood, that I have not Enabled my uploaded sieve
script (by checking the active radio button in my claws-mail sieve
client).

Sieve is now working

On Tue, 31 Jan 2017 21:26:44 +0100
Stephan Bosch <stephan at rename-it.nl> wrote:

> Op 1/21/2017 om 7:12 PM schreef Thomas Carrié:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I am using Exim with this delivery configuration:
> >
> > virtual_delivery:
> >   driver = pipe
> >   command = /usr/lib/dovecot/deliver -d $local_part@$domain  -f
> >   ...
> >
> > I have enabled manage-sieve and uploaded a simple sieve script that
> > I can see on the server.
> >
> > man page of /usr/lib/dovecot/deliver says it supports sieve.
> >
> > Mail debug is enabled:
> >
> > $ dovecot -n | grep debug
> > mail_debug = yes
> >
> > Delivering a mail shows only this line in dovecot log:
> >
> > Jan 21 17:38:51 myserver dovecot: lda(joe at something.com):
> > msgid=<20170121183537.7313f219 at homenetwork>: saved mail to INBOX
> >
> > According to page
> > http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Pigeonhole/Sieve/Troubleshooting#Sieve_Scripts_are_not_Executed
> > I should have a log saying that the sieve plugin is loaded
> >
> > Here is the sieve relevant parts of dovecot -n:
> >
> > # 2.2.13: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf
> > ...
> > plugin {
> >   sieve = ~/.dovecot.sieve
> >   sieve_dir = ~/sieve
> > }
> > ...
> > protocols = " imap sieve pop3 sieve"
> > ...
> > protocol lda {
> >   mail_plugins = " sieve"
> > }
> >
> > Is there a requirement to use delivery via service (unix socket) so
> > that sieve is enabled?
> >
> > Or is there a configuration thing I forgot ?  
> 
> Not really. But I do notice you're executing deliver rather than
> dovecot-lda. Usually, one is a symlink to the other though, so it
> should not matter. But, still best change that to rule out problems
> related to that.
> 
> It should at least be showing debug messages from LDA itself. It may
> be logging debug messages elsewhere though (`sudo doveadm log find`).
> 
> You can also try to execute /usr/lib/dovecot/dovecot-lda manually:
> 
> /usr/lib/dovecot/dovecot-lda -olog_path=/dev/stderr -p
> /path/to/test/message.eml
> 
> This should print all logging to stderr. You may need to add a -d
> <user> argument to select an appropriate user (an it may need to be
> run as root). Refer to http://wiki2.dovecot.org/LDA for reference.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Stephan.
> 
> 
>