what happens to mail after sieve error?

[Andreas Hasenack]

On Tue, Mar 21, 2006 at 11:51:04PM +1030, Daniel O'Connor wrote:
> On Tuesday 21 March 2006 23:00, Lars Schimmer wrote:
> > I use exim4 4.5 and cyrus 2.1.18-1 on a debian stable system with sieve
> > scripts.
> > But now 1 sievescript hit an error for a mail received by exim:
> > Mar 19 20:56:55 europa cyrus/lmtpd[23422]: sieve runtime error for
> > UseraBC id <E1FL41Hrewt5re5t at europa.cgv.tugraz.at>: Fileinto: Mailbox
> > does not exist
> >
> > What happens with THIS mail?
> > Exim4 is happy and done, because it delivered the mail to cyrus, no
> > error in logfile.
> > And there is NO mailbox in which sieve could drop the mail.
> > Is the mail being deleted to nirvana?
> 
> It should go straight into the user inbox.
> (Does for me anyway)

And if there isn't an INBOX, the email will bounce.