Problem with server-side filtering using sieve

Michael Menge michael.menge at zdv.uni-tuebingen.de
Tue Nov 17 06:52:14 EST 2009


Quoting nunatarsuaq <nunatarsuaq at gmail.com>:

> Found a partial solution:
>
> 1. In my case the filter script should refer to user's mailbox as
> "user/USERNAME/folder"
> 2. Then I used sievec to create bytecode file for a particular  
> user's sieve dir:
>
> /usr/lib/cyrus/bin/sievec sieve.filter /var/lib/sieve/U/USERNAME/defaultbc
>
> That's it. The filtering started working. Strange though...
> I don't get it why it doesn't work using sieveshell and a regular text
> script file.

Did you activate the script?

defaultbc is normaly a softlink to the active script bytecode

>
> Anyway I'd prefer to have a main filter file for all users that would
> move all spam-marked messages to Spam folder in each mailbox.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Rangifer
>
> 2009/11/17 nunatarsuaq <nunatarsuaq at gmail.com>:
>> Hi
>>
>> I'm still having problem with getting the filtering working
>>
>> Even though the script can be loaded it doesn't work.
>> I'm trying
>>
>> if header :contains ["Subject"] "test" {
>>         fileinto "Junk";
>>          stop;
>> }
>>
>> if header :contains ["Subject"] "test" {
>>         fileinto "user/testowy/Junk";
>>         stop;
>> }
>>
>> if header :contains ["Subject"] "test" {
>>         fileinto "user.testowy.Junk";
>>         stop;
>> }
>>
>> and
>>
>> if header :contains ["Subject"] "test" {
>>         fileinto "user/testowy.Junk";
>>         stop;
>> }
>>
>> None method works. Is there a bad syntax somewhere?
>> I noticed that when working on imap accounts (using reconstruct
>> command for example) I need to type user/USERNAME instead of
>> user.USERNAME found everywhere on the web.
>>
>> Going further I'd like to set up a filter moving messages marked as
>> spam for all users.
>> How should it be installed?
>>
>> Rangifer
>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> 2009/11/16 Simon Matter <simon.matter at invoca.ch>:
>>>>>>>>> Hello to everybody
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> I'm a new user here and found this list while searching for solution
>>>>>>>>> to my problem.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> I have a running mail server with postfix and cyrus-imap and would
>>>>>>>>> like to start filtering incoming messages on the server side.
>>>>>>>>> I tried to put a filter using sieve shell according to this tutorial
>>>>>>>>> http://wiki.linuxwall.info/doku.php/en:ressources:astuces:sieve but
>>>>>>>>> with no results.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Here's my configuration:
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> I created a file with a sieve filter:
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> if header :contains "X-Spam-Flag" "YES" {
>>>>>>>>>  fileinto "Junk";
>>>>>>>>>  stop;
>>>>>>>>> }
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> I think your script should start with a require line. Do you have it?
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Simon
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> I tried also type fileinto as "user.USERNAME.Junk",
>>>>>>>>> "user/USERNAME.Junk" and "user/USERNAME/Junk")
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Now when I invoke
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> # sieveshell -u cyrus -a cyrus localhost (tried also with a user
>>>>>>>>> other
>>>>>>>>> than cyrus)
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> and type
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> put sieve_filter
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> I get an error:
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> upload failed: put script: script errors:
>>>>>>>>> line 2: fileinto not required
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> What does it really mean?
>>>>>>>>> What can be done to get it working?
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Rangifer
>>>>>>>>> ----
>>>>>>>>> Cyrus Home Page: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/
>>>>>>>>> Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/twiki
>>>>>>>>> List Archives/Info: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/mailing-list.html
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>
>
>
>
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