Sieve problem

Ken Murchison ken at oceana.com
Thu Jun 10 09:48:51 EDT 2004


Kent L. Nasveschuk wrote:

> Hello,
> I'm having a problem with sieve finding the correct mailbox
> 
> In a script when I use INBOX.backup the imapd.log says:
> 
> Jun 10 08:01:55 mail master[10743]: about to exec /usr/cyrus/bin/lmtpd
> Jun 10 08:01:55 mail lmtpunix[10743]: executed
> Jun 10 08:01:55 mail lmtpunix[10743]: accepted connection
> Jun 10 08:01:55 mail lmtpunix[10743]: lmtp connection preauth'd as
> postman
> Jun 10 08:01:55 mail lmtpunix[10743]: sieve runtime error for kent id
> <200406101200.i5AC00og000685 at whs1.tow.net>: Fileinto: Invalid mailbox
> name
> 
> When I use kent.backup I imapd.log says:
> 
> Jun 10 08:08:57 mail master[10762]: about to exec /usr/cyrus/bin/lmtpd
> Jun 10 08:08:57 mail lmtpunix[10762]: executed
> Jun 10 08:08:57 mail lmtpunix[10762]: accepted connection
> Jun 10 08:08:57 mail lmtpunix[10762]: lmtp connection preauth'd as
> postman
> Jun 10 08:08:57 mail lmtpunix[10762]: duplicate_check:
> <200406101207.i5AC72Mn000735 at whs1.tow.net> user.kent.kent.backup 0
> 
> What do I use in the sieve script to deliver to the correct mailbox?

What are the unixhierarchysep and altnamespace options in imapd.conf set 
to (if anything)?


> 
> Sieve script:
> 
> require "fileinto";
>         if header :contains ["Sender","From"] "@whs1.tow.net" {
                       ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
It probably makes more sense to use:

if address :domain ["Sender","From"] "whs1.tow.net"


>                 fileinto "INBOX.backup";}
>                 else {
>                          fileinto "INBOX";
                            ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
You could just use 'keep' rather than fileinto 'fileinto "INBOX"'


> }
>  


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