Set up per user sieve rules

[Austin Witmer]

Thanks to all of you for your tips. I am still struggling to process all of this, but will keep working at it.

Do you any of you know of a detailed tutorial on the net somewhere that would explain how to set this up from a-z?

Thanks again!

Austin Witmer

> On Apr 10, 2022, at 12:00 PM, hi at zakaria.website wrote:
> 
> On 2022-04-10 00:00, Austin Witmer wrote:
>> Hello!
>> I am struggling to wrap my mind around how to set up sieve rules for my individual users on my mail server.
>> I set up a global sieve script file at "/var/lib/dovecot/sieve/default.sieve” and that works great.
>> My users maildirs are located at /mnt/volume1/mailserver/maildir/user. Do I need to create a sieve script file inside of that folder for sieve scripts to work on an individual basis? If so, what permissions will that script file need?
>> Thanks in advance for your help!
>> Austin Witmer
> 
> Hi there,
> 
> You will need to configure ManageSieve in your 15-lda and 20-lmtp and create a service in 10-master and set sieve in dovecot.conf protocols.
> 
> In 90-plugin make sure to use sieve_before and compile its file using sievec if you want default sieve for every user and test on it,
> 
> If it worked then make sure there is personal modifiable one perhaps with User.sieve name and set with proper ownership settings given to LDA/LMTP user since its compiled when user receives an email, therefore refer to dovecot status or logs if there is permission issues. Lastly, you will have to create for it a symbolic link with .dovecot.sieve name referencing user.sieve personal file e.g. like the following:-
> 
> ln -s .../%u/User.sieve .../%u/.dovecot.sieve.
> 
> Refer to for more info
> https://wiki.dovecot.org/Pigeonhole/ManageSieve/Configuration
> 
> Zakaria.