Re: sieve (and cyrus) - doesn't work - how to troubleshoot?

[Andrea Vettorello <dnc@thctribe.net>]

On Mon, 2001-11-19 at 05:40, Erik Steffl wrote:
>   Hi everybody,
> 
>   I have the following problem, I would appreaciate any help:
> 
>   briefly: sieve does not work.
> 
>   here's my setup (these are unofficial cyrus packages from
> www.boxedpenguin.com):
> 
> jojda:~>dpkg -l \*cyrus\*|grep ^ii
> ii  cyrus-admin    1.5.19-9       CMU Cyrus mail system (administration
> tool)
> ii  cyrus-common   1.6.24-2       CMU Cyrus mail system (common files)
> ii  cyrus-imapd    1.6.24-2       CMU Cyrus mail system (IMAP support)
> ii  cyrus-nntp     1.6.24-2       CMU Cyrus mail system (NNTP support)
> 
>   here's what I have in /etc/imapd.conf:
> 
> sieveusehomedir: true
> 
>   and here's my ~/.sieve file (straight from managin imap book):
> 
> if header :contains "subject" "123 testing sieve" {
>   reject "testing sieve message rejected!";
> }
> 
>   but when I send myself an email with subject "123 testing sieve" it it
> is not rejected.
> 
>   where do I go from here?
> 
>   I didn't use installsieve and timsieve since I have no idea how
> (timsieve appears to be server, it says it is supposed to run from inetd
> but there's no info on how)
> 
>   any info/pointer appreciated.
> 

Make running sieve is tricky, and IIRC you need postfix to run in LMTP
mode, you will find more info in a doc in the postfix (but the version
in potato don't support this)


Andrea