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

Volker Wysk post at volker-wysk.de
Sat Feb 3 08:15:32 EET 2018


Am Samstag, 3. Februar 2018, 06:55:47 CET schrieb 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
> }

That's it. Thanks!

Volker



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