Sieve fileinto :create is failing

[Aki Tuomi]

> On 20/01/2021 08:46 Ron Garret <ron at flownet.com> wrote:
> 
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> On Jan 19, 2021, at 10:40 PM, Aki Tuomi <aki.tuomi at open-xchange.com> wrote:
> 
> > 
> >> On 19/01/2021 19:45 Ron Garret <ron at flownet.com> wrote:
> >> 
> >> 
> >> I’m trying to get a sieve script to move messages into a folder, and to create that folder if it doesn’t already exist.  I’m following the example code at:
> >> 
> >> https://doc.dovecot.org/configuration_manual/sieve/examples/
> >> 
> >> and doing this:
> >> 
> >>> require ["fileinto", "mailbox”];
> >>> …
> >>> fileinto :create “myfolder”;
> >>> …
> >> 
> >> That results in this error in the log file:
> >> 
> >> error: unknown tagged argument ':create' for the fileinto command
> >> 
> >> What am I doing wrong?
> >> 
> >> rg
> > 
> > Which version of dovecot/pigeonhole is this?
> 
> I’m not sure.  How would I find out?  I just installed it on Debian using apt.
> 
> > I tested this with 2.3.13 and it worked just fine. Are those quotes mangled by your mailer or do you really have some fancy quotes in your sieve script?
> 
> Not sure what you mean by “fancy quotes”.  The quotes I have (and the ones I see in your quoted message) are regular ascii double quotes, code point 0x22.
> 
> But I think it is actually working now.  I didn’t change anything, it just seems to have spontaneously started working.  Maybe sieve was working off an earlier version of the script that it had cached?
> 
> rg

Ok. Sieve (re)compiles scripts when it sees that they change (comparing file dates). It does not cache scripts in memory.

Aki