Re: [BUG?] Dovecot 2.4.2 from Dovecot repo (RHEL 9) does not implement Sieve (properly/fully)

Hi

> In repo.dovecot.org, the libpigeonhole_settings.so went accidentically to dovecot-managesieved package instead of dovecot-sieve package.


The thing is though I installed `dovecot-managesieved` as you suggested and the error that Dovecot did not recognise any of the sieve directives in `dovecot.conf` went away **but there was still not any Sieve functionality**. I double/triple checked and confirmed that — only after installing Pigeonhole did Sieve work.

The pigeonhole compiled installation put more files into `/usr/lib64/dovecot/settings/` than `dovecot-managesieved` did. This is my current listing after removing `dovecot-managesieved` and installing Pigeonhole from source. Installing `dovecot-managesieved` only put three files into Settings.

```sh
# ls -la /usr/lib64/dovecot/settings/
total 232
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root  4096 Mar  6 12:41 .
drwxr-xr-x 7 root root  8192 Mar  6 12:41 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 42624 Mar  6 12:41 libmanagesieve_login_settings.a
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root  1362 Mar  6 12:41 libmanagesieve_login_settings.la
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 34808 Mar  6 12:41 libmanagesieve_login_settings.so
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 20654 Mar  6 12:41 libmanagesieve_settings.a
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root  1055 Mar  6 12:41 libmanagesieve_settings.la
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 26160 Mar  6 12:41 libmanagesieve_settings.so
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 33642 Mar  6 12:41 libpigeonhole_settings.a
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root  1358 Mar  6 12:41 libpigeonhole_settings.la
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 34400 Mar  6 12:41 libpigeonhole_settings.so
```
```

Anyway, again, installing `dovecot-managesieved` did not solve the missing Sieve functionality.

__________________

Patrick


> On 9 Mar 2026, at 07:49, Aki Tuomi <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> 
>> On 08/03/2026 19:32 EET Patrick S. via dovecot <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> Update:
>> 
> 
> Long story short.
> 
> Pigeonhole is an external plugin to dovecot, hence it won't show up in build options. In repo.dovecot.org, the libpigeonhole_settings.so went accidentically to dovecot-managesieved package instead of dovecot-sieve package.
> 
> This will be fixed soon, and we'll republish the packages, and it should be fine after that. To remediate, you might have to first uninstall dovecot-sieve and dovecot-managesieved, and then install them back.
> 
> Aki
> 

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