[Dovecot] sieve/managesieve and spam filtering

[Charles Sprickman]

On Tue, 11 Aug 2009, Steffen Kaiser wrote:

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> On Mon, 10 Aug 2009, Charles Sprickman wrote:
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>> a bit stumped.  I see there's a global sieverc that can be included, but I 
>> need something along the lines of a per-user include that brings in the 
>> spam filtering rule that will "stick" until the user explicitly deletes it.
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> I install a sieve script per user, which contains the SPAM filter rules.

That is certainly possible.  I have not settled on whether we want to 
offer end-user access to sieve or not.  On one hand, it's a very cool 
feature.  On the other, most users can barely drive a webmail client as it 
is...  For the less clueful, I want them to be able to just click a 
"filter spam" button.  If they also choose to try and filter other email, 
I don't want a disconnect between the "filter spam" setup and their own 
rules.

One thing I did find is that it looks like I can override the 
"sieve_global_path" setting in my user database.  For people that want 
spam, they get a do-nothing filter.  For those that want filtering, they 
get a filter that drops SA-tagged spam into "Spam".

For example:

SELECT [bunch of other stuff] sieve_global_path FROM mailbox WHERE

In my query seems to work.  I put the full path to a sieve rule in 
"sieve_global_path".

Not quite what I want, but close.  From what I gather, any user rules will 
override that filter though.  I guess I'm looking for something like a 
global include that the user can't override...

Thanks,

Charles

> So every user can delete it with own hand.
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> Squirrelmail is to have the avelsieve plugin to talk to a manage sieve demon. 
> So maybe you need to configure "extra" stuff in squirrelmail.
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> I'm using Horde, which does not manipulate Sieve scripts, but creates a fresh 
> one from its own internal rules. So I configured Horde to have SPAM-filter 
> rules by default and a Sieve script doing the same. If the user changes the 
> Horde rules, my default Sieve script gets overwritten.
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> Bye,
>
> - -- Steffen Kaiser
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