cyrus-imapd - sieveusehomedir: 1

[Aleksandar Milivojevic]

Craig White wrote:
> put the following line in /etc/imapd.conf
> #sieveusehomedir: 1
> 
> and restarted cyrus-imapd and this didn't go over very well
> 
> Feb  1 00:16:08 linuxserver sieve[17242]: can't use home directorieses
> Feb  1 00:16:37 linuxserver master[17145]: process 17253 exited, status
> 75
> Feb  1 00:16:37 linuxserver master[17145]: service sieve pid 17253 in
> BUSY state: terminated abnormally
> 
> OK - I'll byte - what's the trick?  I'm finding that using sieve inside
> the mystery that is cyrus is clumsy and was thinking that if I could
> park the sieve files in home directories, things might be more
> manageable.
> 
> I was thinking that this might be a clue...
> Feb  1 00:14:06 linuxserver lmtpunix[17213]: IOERROR: not a sieve
> bytecode file /home/craig/.sieve
> 
> but this came before the other
> 
> Any clues?

Maybe premissions?  Remember, cyrus is not running as root, and unlike 
some other IMAP implementations, doesn't need to run as root.  If you 
store anything in user's home directory, that file must be accessible by 
cyrus user.  For the second problem, I guess you'd need to byte-compile 
your sieve script prior to placing it into .sieve.  Dunno how to do that.

Anyhow, I've been using Sieve for some time now, no problems.  I'm not 
using anything in user's home directories (I've let Cyrus keep sieve 
scripts in his store, and installed smartsieve for script management), 
and had no problems with it so far.  The only place where I allow Cyrus 
to interact with local accounts is password checking (where applicable, 
if there are local user accounts).  This would make moving Cyrus IMAPD 
to dedicated (accountless) machine very simple.

Hm, thinking of it, theoretically, I could even start running Sendmail 
as non-priviledged user (it doesn't need root priviledge to deliver mail 
anymore, I'd just need to sort out file permissions and ownership things 
on queue and db dirs/files).

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