Sieve mail filtering on Mac OS X Server 10.4

[Brian Willoughby]

Got it working.  Apple's instructions to enable Sieve are a bit too  
brief.  There was a clue, however.  They mentioned the /usr/sieve  
directory outside of the "Enabling Sieve Support" section, and when I  
checked /var/log/system.log I found mention of a permissions error.   
Creating /usr/sieve with cyrusimap:mail ownership was enough to get  
things working.

Thanks!


On Sep 5, 2007, at 02:24, Daniel M. Zimmerman wrote:

--On 5 September 2007 01:00:50 -0700 Brian Willoughby  
<brianw at sounds.wa.com> wrote:
> Looks like Cyrusoft has gone bankrupt since Apple wrote the Mail  
> Service
> 10.4 Manual.

True, but it's odd that they're referenced in there at all. Cyrus  
IMAP is not, and never was, maintained by Cyrusoft; they were the  
Mulberry people, and as it happens, Mulberry is still alive (and open  
source!). Cyrus IMAP is maintained by the Cyrus group at Carnegie  
Mellon, <http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/>, and there's some information  
about Sieve there;

Cyrusoft did host the Sieve Home Page, which is archived on the  
Internet archive, <http://web.archive.org/web/20041126062029/http:// 
www.cyrusoft.com/sieve/>. Mulberry, available from <http:// 
www.mulberrymail.com/>, has a Sieve script editor; perhaps using that  
can help. There's also a site, <http://sieve.info/>, that has (and/or  
links to) a bunch of information about Sieve, including tutorials and  
example scripts.

-Dan