BUG: sieve does not set seen-Flag

Tue Dec 4 17:48:56 EET 2018

I have an additional information.

Moving a already seen messsage to another imap-folder (drag&drop in
thunderbird) shows this email in the other folder as unseen and recent.

Is this normal behaviour?

BR Jakob

Am 04.12.18 um 16:36 schrieb Jakobus Schürz:
> Yes. I did it the same way, Larry described.
>
> And i have in my sieve-script, which i use also for years the other
> notation i tried before, many times in use.
> The last month it did not recognize, that this rules won't work any
> longer. Today i played around a little, then i saw, it won't work to set
> the \Seen-Flag...
>
> Please be aware, i can set Junk-Flag, and Thunderbird shows me the
> Emails marked as Junk.
> I can set the $label3-Flag, and Thunderbird shows me the Message marked
> as personal.
>
> Only the \Seen-Flag is not able to be set. Messages are always shown as
> Unseen. Sometimes also as Recent...
>
> Not when i set it in an own line with addflag.
> Not when i set it with setflag as the only Flag.
> Not when i set it together with other flags in one line. The other flags
> are set. Only \Seen is not set.
>
> BG Jakob
>
> Am 04.12.18 um 16:17 schrieb Aki Tuomi:
>
>> Did you notice the
>>
>> fileinto :flags
>>
>> usage? It comes from imap4sieve extension.
>>
>> https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5232#page-7
>>
>> Aki
>>
>>> On 04 December 2018 at 17:13 Larry Rosenman <larryrtx at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> I've been using that recipe for YEARS, and it DOES work for me on FreeBSD
>>> (I'm also the port maintainer for dovecot and pigeonhole).
>>>
>>> Not sure exactly what you are doing wrong, but I use lmtp to deliver the
>>> mail to mbox formatted mailboxes.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Tue, Dec 4, 2018 at 9:11 AM Jakobus Schürz <wertstoffe at nurfuerspam.de>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> I tried it like you... doesn't work. The message gets all the other
>>>> flags,
>>>> but not the \Seen-Flag.
>>>>
>>>> My repo is
>>>>
>>>> https://repo.dovecot.org/ce-2.3-latest/debian/stretch stretch
>>>> dpkg -l|grep dove
>>>> ii dovecot-core 2:2.3.4-2~stretch amd64 secure POP3/IMAP server -
>>>> core files
>>>> ii dovecot-imapd 2:2.3.4-2~stretch amd64 secure POP3/IMAP server -
>>>> IMAP daemon
>>>> ii dovecot-ldap 2:2.3.4-2~stretch amd64 secure POP3/IMAP server -
>>>> LDAP support
>>>> ii dovecot-lmtpd 2:2.3.4-2~stretch amd64 secure POP3/IMAP server -
>>>> LMTP server
>>>> ii dovecot-lucene 2:2.3.4-2~stretch amd64 secure POP3/IMAP server -
>>>> Lucene support
>>>> ii dovecot-managesieved 2:2.3.4-2~stretch amd64 secure POP3/IMAP
>>>> server - ManageSieve server
>>>> ii dovecot-pop3d 2:2.3.4-2~stretch amd64 secure POP3/IMAP server -
>>>> POP3 daemon
>>>> ii dovecot-sieve 2:2.3.4-2~stretch amd64 secure POP3/IMAP server -
>>>> Sieve filters support
>>>> ii dovecot-solr 2:2.3.4-2~stretch amd64 secure POP3/IMAP server -
>>>> Solr support
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Am 04.12.18 um 16:04 schrieb Larry Rosenman:
>>>>
>>>> 2.3.4/0.5.4 (dovecot/pigeonhole)
>>>>
>>>> Note the casing on the \\Seen flag.
>>>>
>>>> On Tue, Dec 4, 2018 at 9:02 AM Jakobus Schürz
>>>> <wertstoffe at nurfuerspam.de>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Which version of dovecot are you using?
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> jakob
>>>>>
>>>>> Am 04.12.18 um 15:44 schrieb Larry Rosenman:
>>>>>> I have the following, and it works:
>>>>>> require ["include","fileinto","imap4flags","variables"];
>>>>>> global "MyFlags";
>>>>>> if header :contains ["X-LERCTR-Spam-Flag","X-TNTSCAN-Spam-Flag"] "YES"
>>>>>> {
>>>>>> redirect "spamtrap at spambouncer.org";
>>>>>> addflag "MyFlags" "\\Seen Junk";
>>>>>> fileinto :flags "${MyFlags}" "SPAM";
>>>>>> stop;
>>>>>> }
>>>>>>
>>>>>> FWIW.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Tue, Dec 4, 2018 at 8:25 AM Jakobus Schürz <
>>>>> wertstoffe at nurfuerspam.de>
>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Now i tried an additional rule in my "normal" working sieve-filter:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> if address :domain :matches "from" "company.example"
>>>>>>> { setflag "\\seen"; fileinto :create "INBOX/foo/test"; stop; }
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> and sent an email from my company-account. The folder INBOX/foo/test
>>>>> gets
>>>>>>> created, but the message inside is not marked as seen.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> So i think, this is a bug in dovecot/pigeonhole, which ignores the
>>>>>>> \\seen-Flag being set by sieve-script.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I tried to set the seen-flag to the message with doveadm. This works
>>>>>>> correctly.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> BG Jakob
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Am 04.12.18 um 14:23 schrieb Jakobus Schürz:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Ok. I tried another Thunderbird-specific Flag:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> require ["imap4flags", "vnd.dovecot.pipe", "copy", "imapsieve",
>>>>> "environment", "variables"];
>>>>>>> if environment :matches "imap.email" "*" {
>>>>>>> set "email" "${1}";
>>>>>>> }
>>>>>>> addflag "Junk";
>>>>>>> addflag "\\seen";
>>>>>>> addflag "$label3";
>>>>>>> pipe :copy "learn-spam.sh";
>>>>>>> pipe :copy "learn-spam-sa.sh" [ "${email}" ];
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> When i move an unflagged email to Folder Junk, it is shown in
>>>>> Thunderbird
>>>>>>> as "personal", Junk but Unseen.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> So, the rule is really working, except for the \\seen-Flag.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I have the line
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> addflag "\\seen";
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> from the dovecot-wiki!
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> BG jakob
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Am 04.12.18 um 14:06 schrieb Jakobus Schürz:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Hi Ralph!
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> This is, what calls the correct sive-filter rules. I have that
>>>>>>> already
>>>>>>> in use.
>>>>>>> But the file
>>>>>>> file:/etc/dovecot/sievepipe/report-spam
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> contains my sieve-script from my first posting.
>>>>>>> So, the difference from setflag to addflag is, setflag sets the
>>>>>>> flags,
>>>>>>> and only the given flags (removing all other flags), and addflag
>>>>>>> adds a
>>>>>>> flag to the existing flags...
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I fiddled around a little...
>>>>>>> The sieve-script sets the Junk-Flag, when it looks like:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> require ["imap4flags", "vnd.dovecot.pipe", "copy", "imapsieve",
>>>>>>> "environment", "variables"];
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> if environment :matches "imap.email" "*" {
>>>>>>> set "email" "${1}";
>>>>>>> }
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> addflag "Junk \\seen";
>>>>>>> pipe :copy "learn-spam.sh";
>>>>>>> pipe :copy "learn-spam-sa.sh" [ "${email}" ];
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> But the \\seen-Flag is not set.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> When i comment out the addflag-line, the Junk-Flag is not set. So the
>>>>>>> line works correct... but only for the Junk-Flag, not for the
>>>>> seen-Flag..
>>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Larry Rosenman http://www.lerctr.org/~ler
>>>> Phone: +1 214-642-9640 (c) E-Mail: larryrtx at gmail.com
>>>> US Mail: 5708 Sabbia Dr, Round Rock, TX 78665-2106
>>>>
>>>>
>>> -- Larry Rosenman http://www.lerctr.org/~ler
>>> Phone: +1 214-642-9640 (c) E-Mail: larryrtx at gmail.com
>>> US Mail: 5708 Sabbia Dr, Round Rock, TX 78665-2106