Server-side Sieve Filters Not Active...?

Hi,

I'm currently looking to implement Snow Leopard Server for my organisation, I'm having problems with Server Side Filters. I can add and edit Sieve Rules fine from the web UI, and I can see them created in /Library/EmailRules/sievescripts/ as .sieve files.

Apple 10.6 Documentation indicates that the lines:

sieve 2000/udp # Sieve mail filtering
Sieve 2000/tcp # Sieve mail filtering

Should be added to /etc/services, which I have I done.

However when I send email matching these rules nothing appears to be filtered.

I decided to take a look in /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf and I've noticed that in the "managesieve" section there are the lines

listen = *:2000
sieve = /var/spool/imap/dovecot/sieve-scripts/%u/dovecot.sieve

This appears to be different from the location where the Sieve scripts are actually generated. Is this why there is no Server-side filtering being performed...? Should I alter the Dovecot configuration or is there somewhere that configures Sieve...?

Thanks in advance for any tips and advice...

J

Mac OS X (10.6)

Posted on Sep 7, 2009 12:30 AM

24 replies

Sep 23, 2009 9:47 AM in response to CLWolf

So I checked 3 of my 10.6.1 servers and none of them have wiki sievemanager in /usr/libexec...

I do have the launchdaemon in /System/Library/LaunchDaemons

Odd... Maybe I can dig around a 10.6 server dvd and see if I can locate that file.

CLWolf

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25 points

Sep 23, 2009 11:33 AM in response to Shane Depner1

sorry, it is in /usr/bin

and I had a few users create vacation notices today. It did not autocreate.

Once I ran this (about a minute ago) it created the folders.

CLWolf

Level 1

25 points

Sep 23, 2009 11:37 AM in response to CLWolf

Ok, that's the ticket. As soon as I ran this, I received vacation messages from the users.

Sep 23, 2009 2:53 PM in response to CLWolf

Hm didn’t work for me unfortunately. I’m still getting the http header errors in apache anytime it tries to access vacation or mail rules and it isn’t creating those directories. In my setup, the file your’re referring to is just a symlink to the cyrus mail migrator script in the same /usr directory. Is yours a symlink or an actual executable?

CLWolf

Level 1

25 points

Sep 23, 2009 3:43 PM in response to Shane Depner1

I just did a locate for it and ran it before. But you are right...it is indeed a symlink. But I just had another user who needed to have his vacation on. We created his vacation notice, ran it (the symlink) and tested. Worked flawlessly.

I also removed any and all traces of my previous 10.5 server install of avelseive.

What really really helped me was having that test server. That way I knew what was old and what was new seive, and also what permissions should have been.

Sep 28, 2009 5:38 AM in response to Shane Depner1

i was getting exactly the same errors trying to access the emailrules and vacation pages. what i did was to configure the web service /settings/ wiki / External Web Services to 127.0.0.1 instead of the FQDN or actual IP.
i had messed about with the majority of /etc/emailrules contents so i binned the lot and it recreated them, after that its all working.

i hope this helps.

Sep 28, 2009 9:07 AM in response to Alex Reid - Clockwork

You have got to be kidding me... that’s all it was... haha. That worked.

Thanks!

Nov 9, 2009 7:32 PM in response to Alex Reid - Clockwork

Hey Alex,

Thanks for that. I put 127.0.0.1 in also and that worked for me too. It is strange I actually got this working previously by having nothing in "web service /settings/ wiki / External Web Services" and after a while it stopped working. Not sure what stopped it working. It is hard to notice when it stop working as once your rules are in they keep working, you just notice it not working when you change rules and you don't notice they expected change. Or if someone adds a rule and it doesn't work for them.

Thanks also to CLWolf for mentioning wiki sievemanager as that is handy to know about.

Regards,
Fabcat

qmp

Level 1

14 points

Jan 5, 2010 4:07 AM in response to Steven Major

Are you telling me that Avelsieve works with SLS?

How did you do configure it?
Which version are you using?

Thanks for any hints…

Kurt

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