I open a Thread and i hope anybody can me explain my mistake I will chance the Sieve Path from my /home to another dir I use the LDA/Sieve wiki http://wiki.dovecot.org/LDA/Sieve but If i change the sieve path from sieve=~/.dovecot.sieve to sieve = /var/spool/sieve-scripts/%u/dovecot.sieve Dovecot search the .dovecot.sieve file continue in my home? and not in the new path # 1.1.1: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf log_path: /var/log/dovecot.log info_log_path: /var/log/dovecot.info protocols: imap imaps managesieve login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login login_executable(default): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(imap): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(managesieve): /usr/lib/dovecot/managesieve-login mail_location: maildir:/var/spool/imap/%u mail_debug: yes mail_executable(default): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap mail_executable(imap): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap mail_executable(managesieve): /usr/lib/dovecot/managesieve mail_plugin_dir(default): /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/imap mail_plugin_dir(imap): /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/imap mail_plugin_dir(managesieve): /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/managesieve sieve_storage(default): sieve_storage(imap): sieve_storage(managesieve): /var/spool/sieve-scripts/%u sieve(default): sieve(imap): sieve(managesieve): /var/spool/sieve-scripts/%u/dovecot.sieve auth default: passdb: driver: pam userdb: driver: passwd socket: type: listen client: path: /var/spool/postfix/private/auth mode: 432 user: postfix group: postfix and here my dovecot log with mail_debug deliver(andreas): Jul 02 14:50:02 Info: Loading modules from directory: /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/lda deliver(andreas): Jul 02 14:50:02 Info: Module loaded: /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/lda/lib90_cmusieve_plugin.so deliver(andreas): Jul 02 14:50:02 Info: maildir: data=/var/spool/imap/andreas deliver(andreas): Jul 02 14:50:02 Info: maildir++: root=/var/spool/imap/andreas, index=, control=, inbox=/var/spool/imap/andreas deliver(andreas): Jul 02 14:50:02 Info: cmusieve: /home/susan/andreas/.dovecot.sieve doesn't exist deliver(andreas): Jul 02 14:50:02 Info: msgid=<b186cc8f0807020552m188b060dpeb95dd24e97d256d at mail.gmail.com>: saved mail to INBOX dovecot: Jul 02 14:50:21 Info: imap-login: Aborted login (auth failed, 1 attempts): method=PLAIN, rip=127.0.0.1, lip=127.0.0.1, secured dovecot: Jul 02 14:51:11 Info: imap-login: Aborted login (auth failed, 1 attempts): method=PLAIN, rip=127.0.0.1, lip=127.0.0.1, secured transtec3:/var/spool/sieve-scripts/andreas# dovecot -n # 1.1.1: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf log_path: /var/log/dovecot.log info_log_path: /var/log/dovecot.info protocols: imap imaps managesieve login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login login_executable(default): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(imap): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(managesieve): /usr/lib/dovecot/managesieve-login mail_location: maildir:/var/spool/imap/%u mail_debug: yes mail_executable(default): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap mail_executable(imap): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap mail_executable(managesieve): /usr/lib/dovecot/managesieve mail_plugin_dir(default): /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/imap mail_plugin_dir(imap): /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/imap mail_plugin_dir(managesieve): /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/managesieve sieve_storage(default): sieve_storage(imap): sieve_storage(managesieve): /var/spool/sieve-scripts/%u sieve(default): sieve(imap): sieve(managesieve): /var/spool/sieve-scripts/%u/dovecot.sieve auth default: passdb: driver: pam userdb: driver: passwd socket: type: listen client: path: /var/spool/postfix/private/auth mode: 432 user: postfix group: postfix I need help because i cant find whats wrong with my config Regards Benjamin Andreas