how to configure imapsieve to be used per user

[Stephan Bosch]

On 24-10-2022 12:00, Sebastian Bachmann wrote:
> according to the documentation, this has to be added to the IMAP METADATA dict per mailbox (https://doc.dovecot.org/configuration_manual/imap_metadata/):
>
> https://doc.dovecot.org/configuration_manual/sieve/plugins/imapsieve/ says:
>> The basic IMAPSIEVE capability allows attaching a Sieve script to a mailbox for any mailbox by setting a special IMAP METADATA entry. This way, users can configure Sieve scripts that are run for IMAP events in their mailboxes.
> But I can not find any example how this should work, neither which client supports setting those things.
> My guess is that these keys are used: https://www.iana.org/assignments/imap-metadata/imap-metadata.xhtml#imap-metadata-2
>
> I would also be interested to know if and how that works, especially if you can add a rule when moving mails (from anywhere) to a certain mailbox for a single user.

The basic capability works according to the specification: https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc6785
This allows the users to configure these scripts.

If you want to arrange this solely at the administrator's discretion, you can use the _before/_after settings documented in https://doc.dovecot.org/configuration_manual/sieve/plugins/imapsieve

>
> Best,
> Sebastian
>
> On 17.10.2022 12:46, Marc wrote:
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>> I only see configurations that are active for all users, how to configure this in the user sieve rules. I only need this for specific users.
>>