Deleting an active sieve script leaves sieve unfunctional

Tobias Leupold tl at l3u.de
Mon Jul 5 22:45:16 EEST 2021


> My educated guess is, yes this is a KMail issue.

Okay, thanks :-) I'll file a bug report there.

Am Montag, 5. Juli 2021, 21:30:54 CEST schrieb dovecot at ptld.com:
> > On 07-05-2021 2:04 pm, Tobias Leupold wrote:
> > 
> > When I delete a sieve script via the managesieve interface of KMail, I
> > would
> > expect that this script is removed from the USER.sieve script so that
> > it's no
> > longer included and not run anymore. Then, it should be deleted.
> 
> As far as sieve is concerned, USER.sieve is the script, still exist and
> is still active.
> 
> Sounds like all you have done is removed a required component of the
> script being an include file. Sieve doesn't know this, all it knows is
> USER.sieve is the script, and its active, so it runs it, which fails
> cause as you know, missing an include file.
> 
> The issue is that you have a corrupted sieve script (USER.sieve). I
> would not consider this a sieve issue. I would consider this a poor
> design by the makers of whatever control panel you using to update your
> includes as it should rebuild the script after making such changes. I
> think your language choice could be confusing, you aren't deleting "a
> script". You are deleting an include file for "the script" being
> USER.sieve.
> 






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