Sieve scripts »by hand«

[Pascal]

>> “It’s installed by default on OS X Server, but you have to hand install the scripts. “

Just for testing and some playing around I would like to do just that! Installing some sieve scripts by hand and see how they work and get comfortable with this stuff…

I did not install the package yet but placed some scripts in the (freshly created) directory /usr/sieve . Unfortunately to no avail.

So how can I make this work? Any help and insight greatly appreciated!

Pascal

PS: Sorry, I should have posted to the forum right away…

[Pascal]

Hmm…

According to the readme of the timsieved.pkg this *should* work:

“You can put scripts in there on a default install of OS X Server and have them work. Cyrus knows how to use them out of the box.”

Strange…

Help, please!

[Pascal]

Having an account ‘ilpostino’ which can send and receive mail, I did this:

– mkdir /usr/sieve
– mkdir /usr/sieve/ilpostino
– touch /usr/sieve/ilpostino/filter.sieve
– chown -R cyrus /usr/sieve

For testing only:
– chmod -R 777 /usr/sieve

Then I edited filter.sieve using pico:

—–
require [“fileinto”, “reject”, “vacation”];

### Trying vacation…
#vacation :days 2 :addresses [“[email protected]”, “[email protected]”]
#
#”I’m away until some time in the future.”;

### Trying a header-test…
#if header :contains [“To”, “Cc”]
#[
# “[email protected]”,
# “[email protected]”
#]
#{
# redirect “[email protected]”;
# reject “Not taking mail from you…”;
# stop;
#}

### Trying unconditional redirect…
redirect “[email protected]”;
—–

(where ‘XXXXX’ is a valid domain of course)

Stopped and restarted the mail-system.

Unfortunately no luck so far! 🙁

[Pascal]

Ahh!

Slowly beginning to understand…

It all (ssems) to depend on the subfolder(s) layout:

/usr

  - /sieve

      - /p

          - /postmaster

      - /s

          - /someone-else

          - /some-other-user



...

Inside the user directory/ies (postmaster, someone-else, …) place your sieve scripts in a file named ‘default’.

Sorry for bothering you all.

Smallish update:
For the lazy it could be tempting to set ‘sievedir: /var/imap/user’ in imapd.conf . This way the required directory layout already is present.
But this is untested!

Pascal

[svenc]

[QUOTE BY= Pascal] Ahh!
…
Smallish update:
For the lazy it could be tempting to set ‘sievedir: /var/imap/user’ in imapd.conf . This way the required directory layout already is present.
But this is untested!

Pascal[/QUOTE]

Thats it…it solved my problem..

Thanks

Sven C.

[svenc]

I can´t find any file, where this filter-rules, defined via squirrelmail/timsieve are stored.

Thanks in advance

Greetings

Sven C.

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