dovecot - Mar 2008 - Debugging sieve-options

Hello all!

I am using a dovecot-server since several weeks - and am really 
impressed about this server (after using courier and cyrus).

I tried to install the sieve-plugin now (CentOS RPM) and configured 
sieve like described in your WIKI (and on several other pages).

Unfortunately I can not connect to port 2000 (sieve-administration?!) 
nor are there any messages regarding sieve in the logs.
Can you give me any hints for further testing/debuggin?

My part of configuration:
-->
protocol lda {
    postmaster_address = postmaster at myserver.de
    auth_socket_path = /var/run/dovecot/auth-master
    mail_plugins = cmusieve
}
<--

My output of "dovecot -n":
-->
# 1.0.12: /etc/dovecot.conf
Warning: mail_extra_groups setting was often used insecurely so it is 
now deprecated, use mail_access_groups or mail_privileged_group instead
base_dir: /var/run/dovecot/
log_path: /var/log/dovecot.log
protocols: imap pop3
listen: *
login_dir: /var/run/dovecot//login
login_executable(default): /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap-login
login_executable(imap): /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap-login
login_executable(pop3): /usr/libexec/dovecot/pop3-login
mail_extra_groups: mail
mail_access_groups: mail
mail_location: maildir:/var/mail/virtual/%d/%n
mail_executable(default): /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap
mail_executable(imap): /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap
mail_executable(pop3): /usr/libexec/dovecot/pop3
mail_plugin_dir(default): /usr/lib64/dovecot/imap
mail_plugin_dir(imap): /usr/lib64/dovecot/imap
mail_plugin_dir(pop3): /usr/lib64/dovecot/pop3
pop3_uidl_format(default): %08Xu%08Xv
pop3_uidl_format(imap): %08Xu%08Xv
pop3_uidl_format(pop3): %u-%v
namespace:
   type: private
   prefix: INBOX.
   inbox: yes
auth default:
   mechanisms: plain login
   user: vmail
   username_format: %Lu
   passdb:
     driver: sql
     args: /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql-domain.conf
   passdb:
     driver: sql
     args: /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql-subdomain.conf
   passdb:
     driver: sql
     args: /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql-aliasdomain.conf
   userdb:
     driver: sql
     args: /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql-domain.conf
   userdb:
     driver: sql
     args: /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql-subdomain.conf
   userdb:
     driver: sql
     args: /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql-aliasdomain.conf
   socket:
     type: listen
     client:
       path: /var/spool/postfix/private/auth
       mode: 432
       user: postfix
       group: postfix
     master:
       path: /var/run/dovecot/auth-master
       mode: 432
       user: vmail
       group: mail
<--

Thank you,
kind regards,

         Jens

Hey Jens,

the big picture is: 

The sieve plugin works with deliver. Deliver is the lda
(local delivery agent), which comes with Dovecot. To use
it you need to configure your mailer (postfix / exim /
sendmail) to deliver emails using Dovecots deliver instead
of writing to users maildirs or mailfiles directly.

To use the managesieve protocol you need a patch to 
Dovecot - the MANAGESIEVE patch. You'll find a lot of
information about it in the mailing lists archive and there
are links in the Wiki.

You should start reading about lda deliver in the Wiki.
Once you've got sieve working you can start to worry about
managesieve :).

Good luck!

Chris.