cyrus-imapd - sieveusehomedir: 1

[Aleksandar Milivojevic]

Craig White wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-02-02 at 10:05 -0500, Bob Chiodini wrote:
> 
>>On Wed, 2005-02-02 at 07:28 -0700, Craig White wrote:
>>
>>>On Tue, 2005-02-01 at 13:07 -0500, Bob Chiodini wrote:
>>>
>>>>On Tue, 2005-02-01 at 09:03 -0700, Craig White wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>On Tue, 2005-02-01 at 09:35 -0600, Aleksandar Milivojevic wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>>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
>>>>
>>>>In /usr/share/doc/cyrus-imapd-2.2.10/install-sieve.html there is a
>>>>mention that sieveusehomedir is incompatible with timsieved.  Other
>>>>references in that directory mention running sieve to possibly compile
>>>>the script into byte code.  I think something other than timsieved would
>>>>have to run to process the script.  Possibly from deliver.
>>>>
>>>>Otherwise I see the same errors as you.  I'll look more into it when I
>>>>get some free time.
>>>>
>>>
>>>----
>>>yeah - I have pretty much given up on the sieveusehomedir option since
>>>just putting the file there doesn't do much - it still has to be
>>>processed by sieveshell or some sieve process to bytecode it. This makes
>>>the location of the file less relevant - but since you can script the
>>>sieveshell stuff, I suppose you could put a script in the users home
>>>directory and run a shell script that invokes sieveshell in the users
>>>name, put (pulls it in in sieveshell lingo) activates it and bails
>>>
>>>Craig
>>>
>>
>>Craig,
>>
>>That's pretty much how I'm doing it.
>>
>>What about the password prompt, when running from a script?
> 
> ----
> yeah for one user, not a problem...
> 
> but so far my scripting hasn't worked for the one user (me)...
> # cat sieve-update
> #!/bin/sh
> /usr/bin/sieveshell localhost -u craig -e /home/craig/sieve-
> update.script
> 
> # cat sieve-update.script
> delete lists
> put /home/craig/lists.script lists
> activate lists
> quit
> 
> # ./sieve-update
> connecting to localhost
> Please enter your password:
> Invalid command: /home/craig/sieve-update.script
> 
> me scratches head and thinks it's time for coffee

The arguement for '-e' is the script itself, not the file containing the 
script:

sieveshell localhost -u craig -e "delete lists; put 
/home/craig/lists.script lists; activate lists"

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