dovecot - May 2017 - Can only enable Sieve scripts not edit them (Roundcube)

Hello,

(my first post so be gentle)

I will be posting this to the Roundcube mailing list too, but thought it worth
asking here as well.

I have a Roundcube installation running Apache with Dovecot and Sieve.

When logged in to Roundcube, a user can see the Sieve scripts and enable or
disable them but NOT edit them or create new scripts.

In other words, Dovecot will happily EDIT the script to mark it as
'false' but will not edit the actual rules or create a new rule...

e.g.

require ["fileinto","vacation"];
# rule:[Out of Office]
if false # true
{
         vacation :days 1 :addresses "me at mydomain.com" :subject
"Out of Office" :from "me at mydomain.com" "I am out of
the office.";
}
# rule:[Spam]
if header :contains "subject" "{Spam}"
{
         fileinto "Spam";
}

Any ideas?

Thanks,

-- 

Paul Littlefield

Hi,

On Fri, 2017-05-05 at 14:25 +0000, Paul Littlefield wrote:
> I will be posting this to the Roundcube mailing list too, but thought
> it worth asking here as well.
> When logged in to Roundcube, a user can see the Sieve scripts and
> enable or disable them but NOT edit them or create new scripts.
There is a roundcube plugin to edit/create sieve rules, but it has some
serious limitations (as I discovered when I let it loose on my nested
if statements). I use the "sieverules" plugin. It works much like many
of MUA tools to filter things into folders, you select the header you
want to filter by, the content the filter is applied to, and where you
want it to go ... in all it's fairly basic. You might want to look into
 other tools to edit your sieve rules, I haven't looked into other web
based sieve editors, but either VIM, or the "managesieve" plugin to
"claws-mail" are what I use.

> In other words, Dovecot will happily EDIT the script to mark it as
> 'false' but will not edit the actual rules or create a new rule...
Dovecot doesn't actually edit your sieve rules, you do that via an
outside method (text editor, MUA plugin ...)
-- 
Nikolai Lusan <nikolai at lusan.id.au>
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If it's feasible for you, try the 1.3-RC. Many improvements in the Sieve 
plugin (and other areas).

hope this helps,

Doug

On 5/5/2017 7:25 AM, Paul Littlefield wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> (my first post so be gentle)
> 
> I will be posting this to the Roundcube mailing list too, but thought it 
> worth asking here as well.
> 
> I have a Roundcube installation running Apache with Dovecot and Sieve.
> 
> When logged in to Roundcube, a user can see the Sieve scripts and enable 
> or disable them but NOT edit them or create new scripts.
> 
> In other words, Dovecot will happily EDIT the script to mark it as 
> 'false' but will not edit the actual rules or create a new rule...
> 
> e.g.
> 
> require ["fileinto","vacation"];
> # rule:[Out of Office]
> if false # true
> {
>          vacation :days 1 :addresses "me at mydomain.com"
:subject "Out of
> Office" :from "me at mydomain.com" "I am out of the
office.";
> }
> # rule:[Spam]
> if header :contains "subject" "{Spam}"
> {
>          fileinto "Spam";
> }
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
> Thanks,
>

Hi Doug,

Weirdly, a reboot fixed it.

Paul


On 29/05/17 04:05, Doug Barton wrote:
> If it's feasible for you, try the 1.3-RC. Many improvements in the
Sieve plugin (and other areas).
> 
> hope this helps,
> 
> Doug
> 
> On 5/5/2017 7:25 AM, Paul Littlefield wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> (my first post so be gentle)
>>
>> I will be posting this to the Roundcube mailing list too, but thought
it worth asking here as well.
>>
>> I have a Roundcube installation running Apache with Dovecot and Sieve.
>>
>> When logged in to Roundcube, a user can see the Sieve scripts and
enable or disable them but NOT edit them or create new scripts.
>>
>> In other words, Dovecot will happily EDIT the script to mark it as
'false' but will not edit the actual rules or create a new rule...
>>
>> e.g.
>>
>> require ["fileinto","vacation"];
>> # rule:[Out of Office]
>> if false # true
>> {
>>          vacation :days 1 :addresses "me at mydomain.com"
:subject "Out of Office" :from "me at mydomain.com" "I
am out of the office.";
>> }
>> # rule:[Spam]
>> if header :contains "subject" "{Spam}"
>> {
>>          fileinto "Spam";
>> }
>>
>> Any ideas?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
-- 

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