dovecot - Nov 2007 - Sieve regex never matches

Hi,

I found the following code on the net which should redirect all mails
to another address depending on the time of day (useful for forwarding
mails to work):

 require ["regex"];
 if allof (header :regex "date"
"(08|09|10|11|12|13|14|15|16|17):..:..",
           not header :regex "date" "(sat|sun)") {
     redirect "address at work>";
     keep;
 }

To check and test I simplified the regex to match all mails within a
certain hour:

 require ["regex"];
 if header :regex "date" "20:..:.." {
     redirect "user at domain";
     keep;
 }

 
Both scripts compile fine, but their regex never match. Has anyone
an idea why? I'm using Dovecot 1.0.0 on Debian Etch stable.

Frank

On Sun, 2007-11-25 at 00:01 +0100, frank.kintrup at fkware.de
wrote:
> Both scripts compile fine, but their regex never match. Has anyone
> an idea why? I'm using Dovecot 1.0.0 on Debian Etch stable.
So I guess you also use Debian-compiled Sieve plugin? It's possible that
it doesn't have regex support compiled in. I'm not sure if it gives any
errors or if it just silently ignores it..

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Hi Timo,
>> Both scripts compile fine, but their regex never match. Has anyone
>> an idea why? I'm using Dovecot 1.0.0 on Debian Etch stable.
> 
> So I guess you also use Debian-compiled Sieve plugin? It's possible
that
> it doesn't have regex support compiled in. I'm not sure if it gives
any
> errors or if it just silently ignores it..
No, no errors, so regex support was compiled in. The regex just never 
matched/always returned false. I've installed version 1.0.5 from  the 
Debian testing branch yesterday evening, and now it works, so the problem 
has already been fixed.

Frank