Filtering mails with sieve filters - SOLVED

[Tom Talpey]

You might consider adding "stop;" after the fileinto, otherwise
a second match might process the message again, moving it
elsewhere, etc.

Tom.

On 10/30/2020 5:47 AM, Odhiambo Washington wrote:
> 
> Answering to myself,
> 
> The issue was as a result of a config parameter for SOGo:
> 
> Changed
> NGImap4ConnectionStringSeparator = "/";
> 
> to
> 
> NGImap4ConnectionStringSeparator = ".";
> 
> and the problem is solved.
> 
> 
> On Fri, 30 Oct 2020 at 11:43, Odhiambo Washington <odhiambo at gmail.com 
> <mailto:odhiambo at gmail.com>> wrote:
> 
>     Hello good people,
> 
>     I have dovecot- 2.3.7.2 (Ubuntu  Ubuntu 20.04.1 LTS) running fine.
>     However, I have a hitch with mail filtering.
> 
>     Using SOGo as the webmail UI, I created a filter rule which resulted
>     into the rule below:
> 
>     require ["fileinto"];
>     if allof (address :contains "from" "odhiambo") {
>          fileinto "INBOX/Odhiambo";
>     }
> 
>     However, the test mail I sent did not end up the folder expected.
> 
>     lda.log contains this info:
>     Oct 30 07:39:07 lda(wash at mydomain)<2415266><tSKSHhvDm1+i2iQA9H6eMA>:
>     Info: sieve:
>     msgid=<CAAdA2WNqXpG1qmOmKp_pJPS6iQrEPeS6=vM_=o8UnvR152x54Q at mail.gmail.com
>     <mailto:o8UnvR152x54Q at mail.gmail.com>>: stored mail into mailbox 'INBOX'
>     Oct 30 07:39:07 lda(wash at mydomain)<2415266><tSKSHhvDm1+i2iQA9H6eMA>:
>     Info: sieve: Execution of script
>     /var/spool/virtual/mydomain/wash/.dovecot.sieve failed, but implicit
>     keep was successful (user logfile
>     /var/spool/virtual/mydomain/wash/.dovecot.sieve.log may reveal
>     additional details)
> 
>     And the .dovecot.sieve.log contains:
>     sieve: info: started log at Oct 30 07:39:07.
>     error:
>     msgid=<CAAdA2WNqXpG1qmOmKp_pJPS6iQrEPeS6=vM_=o8UnvR152x54Q at mail.gmail.com
>     <mailto:o8UnvR152x54Q at mail.gmail.com>>: failed to store into mailbox
>     'INBOX/Odhiambo': *Invalid mailbox name: Name must not have '/'
>     characters.*
>     *
>     *
>     What might be the problem here??
> 
> 
>     dovecot -n output is below:
> 
>     # 2.3.7.2 (3c910f64b): /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf
>     # Pigeonhole version 0.5.7.2 ()
>     # OS: Linux 5.4.0-29-generic x86_64 Ubuntu 20.04.1 LTS ext4
>     # Hostname: jp.mydomain
>     auth_mechanisms = plain login
>     auth_socket_path = /var/run/dovecot/auth-userdb
>     debug_log_path = /var/log/dovecot/debug.log
>     default_login_user = dovecot
>     default_vsz_limit = 2 G
>     disable_plaintext_auth = no
>     first_valid_uid = 110
>     hostname = gw.mydomain
>     info_log_path = /var/log/dovecot/info.log
>     log_path = /var/log/dovecot/error.log
>     mail_gid = Debian-exim
>     mail_location = maildir:/var/spool/virtual/%d/%n/Maildir:INDEX=/var/spool/virtual/indexes/%d/%1n/%n
>     mail_plugins = fts
>     mail_privileged_group = mail
>     mail_server_admin = postmaster at mydomain
>     mail_uid = Debian-exim
>     managesieve_notify_capability = mailto
>     managesieve_sieve_capability = fileinto reject envelope encoded-character vacation subaddress comparator-i;ascii-numeric relational regex imap4flags copy include variables body enotify environment mailbox date index ihave duplicate mime foreverypart extracttext imapsieve vnd.dovecot.imapsieve
>     namespace inbox {
>        inbox = yes
>        location =
>        mailbox Drafts {
>          special_use = \Drafts
>        }
>        mailbox Junk {
>          special_use = \Junk
>        }
>        mailbox Sent {
>          special_use = \Sent
>        }
>        mailbox "Sent Messages" {
>          special_use = \Sent
>        }
>        mailbox Trash {
>          special_use = \Trash
>        }
>        prefix =
>     }
>     passdb {
>        args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf.ext
>        driver = sql
>     }
>     plugin {
>        fts_autoindex = yes
>        fts_autoindex_exclude = \Junk
>        fts_autoindex_exclude2 = \Trash
>        fts_autoindex_exclude3 = \Drafts
>        fts_autoindex_exclude4 = \Spam
>        fts_enforced = yes
>        imapsieve_mailbox1_before = file:/usr/lib/dovecot/sieve/report-spam.sieve
>        imapsieve_mailbox1_causes = COPY
>        imapsieve_mailbox1_name = Spam
>        imapsieve_mailbox2_before = file:/usr/lib/dovecot/sieve/report-ham.sieve
>        imapsieve_mailbox2_causes = COPY
>        imapsieve_mailbox2_from = Spam
>        imapsieve_mailbox2_name = *
>        plugin = fts managesieve sieve
>        sieve = file:~/sieve;active=~/.dovecot.sieve
>        sieve_execute_bin_dir = /usr/lib/dovecot/sieve-execute
>        sieve_filter_bin_dir = /usr/lib/dovecot/sieve-filter
>        sieve_global_extensions = +vnd.dovecot.pipe +vnd.dovecot.environment
>        sieve_pipe_bin_dir = /usr/lib/dovecot/sieve
>        sieve_plugins = sieve_imapsieve sieve_extprograms
>     }
>     postmaster_address = postmaster at mydomain
>     protocols = imap lmtp sieve
>     service auth {
>        unix_listener auth-client {
>          mode = 0600
>          user = Debian-exim
>        }
>        unix_listener auth-userdb {
>          group = Debian-exim
>          user = Debian-exim
>        }
>     }
>     service stats {
>        unix_listener stats-reader {
>          user = Debian-exim
>        }
>        unix_listener stats-writer {
>          user = Debian-exim
>        }
>     }
>     service submission-login {
>        inet_listener submission {
>          port = 2587
>        }
>     }
>     ssl_cert = </etc/letsencrypt/live/mydomain/fullchain.pem
>     ssl_client_ca_dir = /etc/ssl/certs
>     ssl_dh = # hidden, use -P to show it
>     ssl_key = # hidden, use -P to show it
>     userdb {
>        args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf.ext
>        driver = sql
>     }
>     protocol lmtp {
>        info_log_path = /var/log/dovecot/lmtp.log
>        log_path = /var/log/dovecot/lmtp-errors.log
>        mail_plugins = fts sieve
>        postmaster_address = postmaster at mydomain
>     }
>     protocol lda {
>        info_log_path = /var/log/dovecot/lda.log
>        log_path = /var/log/dovecot/lda-errors.log
>        mail_plugins = fts sieve
>     }
> 
> 
>     -- 
>     Best regards,
>     Odhiambo WASHINGTON,
>     Nairobi,KE
>     +254 7 3200 0004/+254 7 2274 3223
>     "Oh, the cruft.", grep ^[^#] :-)
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> Best regards,
> Odhiambo WASHINGTON,
> Nairobi,KE
> +254 7 3200 0004/+254 7 2274 3223
> "Oh, the cruft.", grep ^[^#] :-)