sieveusehomedir true - IOERROR: not a sieve bytecode file

[Ken Murchison]

Andrew Morgan wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 24 Oct 2005, Ken Murchison wrote:
> 
>> Andrew Morgan wrote:
>>
>>> I upgraded my dev box from Cyrus 2.1.18 to 2.2.12.  I have been using 
>>> .sieve files in user home directories.  After starting up 2.2.12, I 
>>> get the following error message in the logs when I send mail to my 
>>> account:
>>>
>>> Oct 18 15:40:50 mail1 lmtp[18891]: IOERROR: not a sieve bytecode file 
>>> /users/u1/m/morgan/.sieve
>>>
>>>
>>> My .sieve file is the exact same one that I'm using in the production 
>>> server running 2.1.16.
>>>
>>> I understand that sieve files are compiled into bytecode now, but I 
>>> didn't think that would affect .sieve files in homedirs.
>>>
>>> Is it true that .sieve files in homedirs must be compiled into 
>>> bytecode as well now?
>>
>> Yes.  lmtpd in Cyrus 2.2+ only reads bytecode scripts.
> 
> Hmmm.  This means changing how I handle mail filtering for my users.  
> How do other large installations handle this?  I currently generate 
> .sieve files for my users' most common needs, and this is integrated 
> into our larger self-service account tools.  I guess I'll most likely 
> move to timsieved, but I'm open to suggestions now.

Just change your tool to run 'sievec' on the text script to compile it 
to bytecode.

-- 
Kenneth Murchison
Systems Programmer
Carnegie Mellon University