<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Thanks Shawn for your reply. I am a novice at this as well!<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I should clarify that I have my user database in PostgreSQL.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">The maildirs are at /mnt/volume1/mailserver/plain/maildir/austin</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">See below. What am I doing wrong?</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo; color: rgb(64, 11, 217);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures; color: #2fb41d" class=""><b class="">austin@mail</b></span><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures; color: #000000" class="">:</span><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class=""><b class="">/mnt/volume1/mailserver/plain/maildir/austin</b></span><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures; color: #000000" class="">$ ls -la</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">total 176</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">drwx------ 11 austin austin 4096 Apr 10 03:13 </span><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures; color: #400bd9" class=""><b class="">.</b></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">drwx------ 6 austin austin 4096 Apr 9 03:03 </span><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures; color: #400bd9" class=""><b class="">..</b></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">drwx------ 5 austin austin 4096 Apr 10 00:07 </span><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures; color: #400bd9" class=""><b class="">.Codeblocks</b></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">drwx------ 5 austin austin 4096 Apr 9 16:52 </span><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures; color: #400bd9" class=""><b class="">.Drafts</b></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">drwx------ 5 austin austin 4096 Apr 10 00:41 </span><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures; color: #400bd9" class=""><b class="">.Sent</b></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">drwx------ 5 austin austin 4096 Apr 9 22:18 </span><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures; color: #400bd9" class=""><b class="">.Trash</b></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">lrwxrwxrwx 1 austin austin 18 Apr 10 03:13 </span><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures; color: #2eaebb" class=""><b class="">.dovecot.sieve</b></span><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class=""> -> sieve/austin.sieve</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">drwx------ 5 austin austin 4096 Apr 9 23:56 </span><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures; color: #400bd9" class=""><b class="">.test</b></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">drwx------ 2 austin austin 4096 Apr 10 03:09 </span><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures; color: #400bd9" class=""><b class="">cur</b></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">-rw------- 1 austin austin 31 Apr 5 17:35 dovecot-keywords</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">-rw------- 1 austin austin 1631 Apr 10 03:08 dovecot-uidlist</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">-rw------- 1 austin austin 8 Apr 9 23:03 dovecot-uidvalidity</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">-r--r--r-- 1 austin austin 0 Apr 3 23:14 dovecot-uidvalidity.624a2a76</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">-rw------- 1 austin austin 1040 Apr 10 03:03 dovecot.index</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">-rw------- 1 austin austin 25860 Apr 10 03:08 dovecot.index.cache</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">-rw------- 1 austin austin 10804 Apr 10 03:09 dovecot.index.log</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">-rw------- 1 austin austin 32852 Apr 10 00:05 dovecot.index.log.2</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">-rw------- 1 austin austin 888 Apr 10 00:04 dovecot.list.index</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">-rw------- 1 austin austin 1340 Apr 10 03:03 dovecot.list.index.log</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">-rw------- 1 austin austin 8292 Apr 9 23:56 dovecot.list.index.log.2</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">-rw------- 1 austin austin 120 Apr 9 23:03 dovecot.mailbox.log</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">-rw------- 1 austin austin 0 Apr 3 23:14 maildirfolder</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">drwx------ 2 austin austin 4096 Apr 10 03:09 </span><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures; color: #400bd9" class=""><b class="">new</b></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">drwxrwxr-x 2 austin austin 4096 Apr 10 03:13 </span><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures; color: #400bd9" class=""><b class="">sieve</b></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">-rw------- 1 austin austin 39 Apr 9 23:03 subscriptions</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">drwx------ 2 austin austin 4096 Apr 10 03:08 </span><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures; color: #400bd9" class=""><b class="">tmp</b></span></div></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Can anyone else chip in here to help me out?</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Thanks so much!</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Austin Witmer<br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Apr 9, 2022, at 8:16 PM, Shawn Heisey <<a href="mailto:elyograg@elyograg.org" class="">elyograg@elyograg.org</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class="">On 4/9/2022 6:00 PM, Austin Witmer wrote:<br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">I am struggling to wrap my mind around how to set up sieve rules for my individual users on my mail server.<br class=""><br class="">I set up a global sieve script file at "/var/lib/dovecot/sieve/default.sieve” and that works great.<br class=""><br class="">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?<br class=""><br class="">Thanks in advance for your help!<br class=""></blockquote><br class="">I've got the user database for dovecot in a MySQL database managed by phpmyadmin.<br class=""><br class="">This is what can be found as far as files and permissions for my email user's sieve setup:<br class=""><br class=""><a href="https://paste.elyograg.org/view/8442b4d0" class="">https://paste.elyograg.org/view/8442b4d0</a><br class=""><br class="">I use the managesieve plugin for roundcube to handle changes to my sieve script. At least I think that's what the plugin is called. I set it up a LONG time ago. Most of the time I access mail with Thunderbird. This is my doveconf -n output:<br class=""><br class="">https://paste.elyograg.org/view/08536e83<br class=""><br class="">If somebody sees something I should change in my config, please tell me. I am not an expert.<br class=""><br class="">Thanks,<br class="">Shawn<br class=""></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div></body></html>