[Dovecot] delivers mail to bad directory(prefix) using sieve filters

Timo Sirainen tss at iki.fi
Thu Jan 8 17:03:47 EET 2009


What I meant was that it should be possible for you to not use the
"INBOX." namespace prefix at all with Dovecot. Then this Sieve problem
is gone.

Other than that, there's really no other solution except to upgrade to
v1.1.

On Thu, 2009-01-08 at 11:58 +0100, Radim Roska wrote:
> ok..i guess i have said it not very precisely. Anyway that was not the
> important part of the question :).
> 
> problem is that sieve filters eg.
> 
> header :contains "Subject" "test"
> {
> fileinto "INBOX.a";
> }
> 
> will move mail
> deliver(tester at imap): 2009-01-08 03:59:36 Info:
> msgid=<20090108025936.3BB551D31CB at localhost>: saved mail to INBOX.a
> 
> thats nice..but since dovecot is configured as it is. It appends INBOX to
> this. which means it forward mail to INBOX.INBOX.a
> ( i cannot change this configuration since all users already use it as it
> is)
> 
> So the problem is in dovecot..its clear from mail here
> http://www.dovecot.org/list/dovecot/2007-September/025415.html
> 
> Any hints what to do with that?? :)
> 
> Main question is, when do you expect that dovecot 1.2 will be in debian
> repositories.
> 
> 
> Thanks
> R.
> 
> On Sat, Jan 3, 2009 at 10:40 PM, Darren Pilgrim <
> list_dovecot at bluerosetech.com> wrote:
> 
> > Timo Sirainen wrote:
> >
> >> On Jan 1, 2009, at 12:05 PM, Radim Roska wrote:
> >>
> >>  Squirrelmail does not allow to create folders without prefix.
> >>>
> >>
> >> Really?
> >>
> >
> > No.  There's a configurable setting that creates folders under INBOX by
> > default; however, Squirrelmail can create top-level folders and sub-folders
> > of any folder.
> >
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