Sieve global path?

[Bill Shirley]

I just checked with Thunderbird, SquirrelMail, and Roundcube.  The sieve directory is not
in the overview.

dovecot is highly configurable.  Ya think I may have configured mine where
this is not a problem?  I have 9+ mail servers running this way.

Bill


On 11/10/2017 4:56 AM, Tamsy wrote:
> Stephan von Krawczynski wrote on 10.11.2017 16:35:
>> On Fri, 10 Nov 2017 03:41:20 -0500
>> Bill Shirley <bill at KnoxvilleChristian.org> wrote:
>>
>>> No it isn't shown as a folder.  All folder directories here begin with a dot.
>>> i.e.  .INBOX  .Trash  .Drafts
>>>
>>> Bill
>> No, they don't. me thought that, too. But using the rainloop webmail interface
>> on top of such a config showed the sieve folder in the overview. Sometimes you
>> can even see a "dovecot" folder, which also disappears when sieve is outside.
>>
>> -- 
>> Regards,
>> Stephan
>>
>>
>>
>>> On 11/10/2017 3:07 AM, Stephan von Krawczynski wrote:
>>>> On Thu, 9 Nov 2017 21:02:44 -0500
>>>> Bill Shirley <bill at KnoxvilleChristian.org> wrote:
>>>>> Set the sieve_global_dir like this.
>>>>> /etc/dovecot/conf.d/99-mystuff.conf:
>>>>> .
>>>>> .
>>>>> plugin {
>>>>>      sieve                 = ~/Maildir/dovecot.sieve
>>>>>      sieve_dir             = ~/Maildir/sieve
>>>>>      sieve_global_dir      = /etc/dovecot/sieve/global/
>>>>>      sieve_before          = /etc/dovecot/sieve/before.d/
>>>>> #  sieve_before2        =
>>>>> #  sieve_before3        =
>>>>>      sieve_after           = /etc/dovecot/sieve/after.d/
>>>>> #  sieve_after2         =
>>>>> #  sieve_after3         =
>>>>>
>>>>>      fts                   = lucene
>>>>>      fts_lucene            = whitespace_chars=@.
>>>>> }
>>>>>
>>>>> Permissions:
>>>>> drwxr-xr-x. 174 root root system_u:object_r:etc_t:s0         12288 Nov  9
>>>>> 11:43 /etc drwxr-xr-x.   4 root root system_u:object_r:dovecot_etc_t:s0
>>>>> 95 Apr 28  2016 /etc/dovecot drwxr-xr-x.   5 root root
>>>>> system_u:object_r:dovecot_etc_t:s0    64 Jul 13  2015 /etc/dovecot/sieve
>>>>> drwxr-xr-x.   2 root root system_u:object_r:dovecot_etc_t:s0    10 Jul 13
>>>>> 2015 /etc/dovecot/sieve/global
>>>>>
>>>>> Since this directory is read-only to all but root, pre-complie your
>>>>> scripts with 'sievec'.
>>>>>
>>>>> Bill
>>>> ... And don't follow this example setting sieve_dir inside your maildirs.
>>>> This will lead to the dir being shown as imap folder which you don't want.
>>>> Simply put out it outside and everything is fine.
> Excactly the same happens with Roundcube (at least v.1.2): The Sieve folder shows up in the Folder View.