Questions tagged [sieve]
Sieve is a language for filtering email messages. It can be implemented in mail server or mail client.
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Postfix + Dovecot, Sieve execution flow and auto reply
I'm using Postfix and Dovecot LMTP on my server. My question is how do I create a silently discarding recipient address and respond auto reply? Also I want to learn Postfix and Dovecot execution ...
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Postfix aliases and duplicate e-mails - with Dovecot
This is actually a follow-up question to this post: Postfix aliases and duplicate e-mails, how to fix?
(I don't have enough reputation to comment on that post.)
I have setup my Postfix + Dovecot as ...
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Why email response comes from: Postmaster
I've created a sieve script that filters for particular words in Subject, drops the body and sends notification to the recipient and sender.
Everything works well but the only thing I can't figure out ...
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Dovecot container tries to invoke sendmail for a sieve filter
I have two docker containers: postfix and dovecot. Both have the corresponding services installed and running. Everything is working great but now i am trying to integrate sieve filtering.
One of ...
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How to make sieve-filter use virtual users
sieve-filter -e -W -u user@example.com /path/to/sieve/file.sieve INBOX
fails with the error:
sieve-filter(root): Fatal: Unknown user
The output of doveadm -n is
auth_master_user_separator = *
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sieve to check if from and reply-to are the same
i'm currently trying to set up a sieve rule to check if From and Reply-to headers are the same. If not reject the email. But i can't seem to get it working. I'm thinking of something like that:
if ...
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How to replace multiple letters in an variable in Sieve?
I want to use my catch-all-email to put emails in their corresponding folders. So if I were to sign up for twitter I'd use twitter@example.com.
Currently I have this script:
if address :matches ["...
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Setting SpamAssassin's Bayes_path per user and dovecot
I have dovecot, Spamassassin and postfix running. I started to use sa-learn to get better and more precise spam identification and filtering.
I have not set the Bayes_path preference on my local.cf ...
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Sieve Script not working on tld's
I have the following sieve script, which is supposed to discard or reject any emails from domains like xxx@xxx .xyz or ....top. However it is not discarding them?
require ["reject"];
if ...
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Getting permission denied lmtp/sieve error
I set up sieve for the first time on a Debian machine running postfix/dovecot/lmtp. It works, however I want to clear up an error I've been getting:
lmtp(joeblow)<17980><...
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Roundcube filters getting ignored with postfix/dovecot/sieve
I'm having a lot of trouble getting roundcube filters working. I can see the filters in the roundcube web interface and I can see the sieve files in the user's home directory. I can also edit and save ...
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Dovecot's Sieve filter creates duplicate of incoming email
I'm using Dovecot with Sieve filters.
I've got a default filter: sieve_before = /var/lib/dovecot/sieve.d/default.sieve
And after that some user's filter: sieve_dir = ~/sieve
Problem: Dovecot filters &...
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Auto clean mail folder with dovecot/sieve
Can I automatically clean a folder in my mailbox?
Let's say I want to automatically delete messages that are older than 3 months.
Does dovecot/sieve have this option?
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Sieve filter remove detail part from subaddress
I currently have a sieve filter that looks like the following:
require ["variables", "envelope", "fileinto", "vnd.dovecot.filter", "subaddress"];
if ...
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Autoreply script not working using Dovecot + Sieve + Vacation on Debian 10
I am trying to configure the vacation sieve script on my Debian10 server, but it does not seem to work (it does not send an autoreply when receiving mail).
I didn't really understand how sieve treats ...
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Alias sieve filter at LMTP level
I would like a global sieve filter able to compare the "To" header with the "Delivered-To" one to check for aliases.
Mail to aliases should end up in "Aliases/${alias}"
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Postfix - Sieve redirect and SMTP relay
I have a mail server (Postfix/Dovecot/ISPConfig) with a 100+ mail users.
I currently use a SMTPRelay with SendGrid for all outcoming mails.
I have set a sieve rule for redirecting email to another ...
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Why does Dovecot LDA create subfolders for address detail?
I recently noticed that my dovecot LDA creates a subfolder in my Maildir for mails that have a details part in the recipient address (local-part+detail@domain).
I absolutely cannot find a setting ...
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Disable action associated with extension 'fileinto' in the managesieve interpreter (Dovecot)
After doing some research on sieve support with dovecot, I decided to implement it on a virtual machine for testing. I have everything working as expected, i.e. a script is uploaded onto the server, ...
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Dovecot Sieve doesn't move spam to Junk folder in maildir
I have an Ubuntu 16.04 mail server with postfix/spamassassin/dovecot with virtual mailboxes in maildir format. The whole process is working excellently since a year. Spams are marked with "*****SPAM***...
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Sieve filter that checks if email is a respond to an email of mine
I have a mail provider which allows me to upload sieve scripts to it. I would like to find out if it's possible to use sieve to make mailing lists subscriptions feel more like web based forums - where ...
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Autoreply to include original message
I have a linux postfix server with roundcube, dovecot and sieve installed.
I want to reply to messages with a certain subject with a message and the original message quoted.
Is there a macro/...
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Sieve Vacation Extension: Save Out of Office Replies
I have an SMTP + IMAP server on linux and use sieve filtering to provide some useful features.
One such feature is out-of-office replies, provided by the following script:
require ["fileinto", "...
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Roundcube filter set by ManagedSieve not being found
Here is my current filter:
require ["vacation"];
# rule:[Filter Test]
if allof (exists "from")
{
vacation :days 365 :addresses "newmail@vietfeir.com" :subject "Mailbox disabled" :from "...
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How to configure Dovecot/Pigeonhole using MySQL authentication
I have a working Dovecot server with Spamassassin. I can receive mail with Thunderbird and Bluemail clients. I use smtp2go to send mail out.
I want to configure Pigeonhole Sieve but find the ...
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Run sieve when movin messages
I have sieve working for incoming messages. I would also love to run sieve for delivered messages that are being moved between mailboxes on the server (for the same account).
For example. I have mail ...
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Is there a possibility to rewrite the recipient_delimiter in postfix
I use email address suffixes to file emails to different folders. For example, me+suffix@example.com would be filed in folder "suffix". This works, but I would also like to allow for "-" as ...
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Postfix - blocking by From rather than sender
I have a ton of incoming spam that masquerades as being sent by me, but has a sender at some arbitrary spammer domain. e.g.
Return-Path: <admin@aiuw.com>
... (stuff elided, etc.)
Received: from ...
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Unable to connect to port 993 for IMAP on Ubuntu server with Postfix/Dovecot/MySQL
Ubuntu 16.04.5
Apache2
MySQL
Postfix w/MySQL
Dovecot
SASL2
UFW
I am trying to install a working mail server and client on this machine. I followed this tutorial which allows authentication through ...
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Dovecot Sieve: Store part of a message as a variable
I need to retrieve some parts of a message which looks like
Subject: Test message
Message-Id: <2788db2f-b5c3-4b8c-881e-362c3df4f915@server.local>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: multipart/...
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Dovecot Sieve and :output variable for execute adding invalid character
I'm trying to get blow Sieve filter to work
require ["fileinto", "imap4flags", "mailbox", "body", "envelope", "vnd.dovecot.pipe", "variables", "vnd.dovecot.execute"];
if envelope :matches "To" "*@*" ...
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Postfix/Amavis not filtering spam for entries in second domain
My postfix installation is working correctly (delivery via dovecot, spam filtering via amavis - spamassasin).
I have some aliases in virtual, eg:
info@mydomain2.com johnDoe
However, for the ...
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Postifx Dovecot lmtp, sieve not working
My mail server has a problem. I want to install sieve, but the rules do not work.
As far as I found out, I think the handover at lmtp to dovecot does not work.
e-mails can be received and sent, but ...
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Postfix + Dovecot + Sieve + forwarding + sieve
Let's suppose my domain at exampleserver.com.
I have following sieve rule:
require ["fileinto", "subaddress", "mailbox", "variables"];
if address :detail :matches "to" "*" {
set "folder" "${1}";
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Dovecot ignoring sieve
I've a typical postfix+dovecot install in my email server. Works everything OK, with Roundcube as a webmail. The problem is that apparently the sieve plugin, which is activated, does not work or sth. ...
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How are user specific Sieve files created?
My Dovecot's protocol_lda is as follows:
protocol lda {
log_path = /var/log/mail/dovecot-deliver.log
auth_socket_path = /var/run/dovecot/auth-master
postmaster_address = malmeida@...
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Which special characters work in sieve regex?
I have the Roundcube Webmail v. 1.3.1 mail client with managesieve v. 8.7 extension and want to add some regex driven actions for my mail and the only documentation I found on the regex flavour is ...
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Postfix + Dovecot + Sieve - CC and BCC redirects won't works
guys!
I have a CentOS web server with ISPConfig, this server has been running without any problems for over a year, included with the email service (postfix + dovecot + sieve).
However, a new need ...
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regex sieve script not matching
I have a problem on a dovecot2 mail server with a sieve script I write.
The script should automatically move mail coming from a mailing list to a folder (by list name, not list id)
require ["fileinto"...
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filtering spam emails with Chinese subject
A client have ton of Chinese spam. All look similar to this one:
Return-Path: <15308409199@189.cn>
X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on
hotel492.dedicatedpanel.com
X-...
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Dovecot autoresponder with vmail
I have server with postfix and dovecot. E-Mails are delivered with dovecot. /etc/postfix/master.cf looks like this:
dovecot unix - n n - - pipe
flags=DRhu user=...
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No subaddress :detail part in envelope test
I try to filter mails by subaddress :detail parts in sieve scripts.
Goal is the usage of regex patterns as in this simple test case:
if envelope :detail :regex "to" ["^test$"]{ ...
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Error about missing (sql) field “pw_sieve” under pigeonhole
Yesterday I installed the latest updates of dovecot 2.3 and pigeonhole 0.5.0 in the hope that some sieve-bugs have been fixed in the meantime.
However, now I get the error
"dovecot: auth-worker(###):...
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Why does the user “Debian-exim” exist?
I'm using the Exim mail server on an Ubuntu Server. The service runs as the user "Debian-exim" and the mail files are owned by the user "mail". This is a problem now.
I'm trying to understand how to ...
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Arch Linux: Dovecot Sieve Script Won’t Compile
Arch Linux
Linux kernel 4.9.36 (64-bit)
Dovecot 2.2.31 (65cde28)
SpamAssassin version 3.4.1 running on Perl version 5.26.0
Pigeonhole 0.4.19-1
Trying to set up a mail server for the firs by following ...
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.dovecot: line 3: error: included personal script 'vacation' does not exist
I'm trying to test a more modular approach to using sieve scripts on my mail server.
Previously I used .dovecot.sieve for everything but I now have conflicting requirements and I thought I'd test ...
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Create custom mailboxes with dovecot
I'm trying to setup dovecot + sieve plugin. I'm suing the Maildir format. I use Thunderbird to read the emails so i don't need a webmail on my server. The basic config works fine but now I want to add ...
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Roundcube keeps loading when trying to make a new filter with managesieve
I'm trying to install an autoresponder for Roundcube with Managesieve and probably doing something wrong.
Roundcube is working fine, /var/log/roundcube/errors is empty.
But, when I try to make a new ...
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postfix/dovecot/sieve - delay forward mails
Currently I'm struggling to achieve what sounds like a simple thing:
I have a setup with postfix, dovecot and sieve. Mails from two certain addresses to one mailbox are being forwarded to another ...
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Replace characters in a sieve variable
When I register on websites I use their domain in my email, for example serverfault.com@example.com. I'd like to file each domain into a separate IMAP folder using sieve and I've created the script ...
