dovecot-lda won't cause mail to be filtered by sieve

[Christian Kivalo]

On February 3, 2018 3:39:56 AM GMT+01:00, Volker Wysk <post at volker-wysk.de> wrote:
>Hi
>
>I'm changing from fetchmail to getmail, in order to fetch my mail from
>several mail servers and deliver it to my local dovecot server.
>Fetchmail supports LMTP, getmail doesn't. So I'm making getmail call
>dovecot-lda for delivering the mail. But now, the incoming mail doesn't
>get filtered through sieve any longer.
>
>However, this command works:
>
>sieve-filter -v -u v ~v/.dovecot.sieve INBOX -e -W expunge
>
>Any ideas?
>
>Greetings
>V.W.
You need to enable the sieve plugin for LDA. Look at the 15-lda.conf config file.

At the end of the file you should have
protocol lda {
mail_plugins = $mail_plugins sieve
}
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Christian Kivalo