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

> On 09/03/2026 09:34 EET Patrick Starrenburg via dovecot <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>  
> 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.

It did work for my rhel10 test. Not sure what went wrong in your case.

$ rpm -qa | grep dovecot
dovecot-lua-2.4.2-2.x86_64
dovecot-2.4.2-2.x86_64
dovecot-ldap-2.4.2-2.x86_64
dovecot-sieve-2.4.2-2.x86_64
dovecot-sieve-devel-2.4.2-2.x86_64
dovecot-managesieved-2.4.2-2.x86_64

$ doveconf 
# 2.4.2-2 (0962ed2104): /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf
# Pigeonhole version 2.4.2-2 (767418c3)
# OS: Linux 6.8.0-94-generic x86_64 Red Hat Enterprise Linux release 10.0 (Coughlan) 
# Hostname: a4565594f1a4
dovecot_config_version = 2.4.2
dovecot_storage_version = 2.4.2
mail_driver = maildir
mail_home = /home/%{user|name}
mail_inbox_path = /var/mail/%{user|name}
mail_path = ~/mail
mailbox_list_utf8 = yes
protocols = sieve imap lmtp pop3 submission
passdb pam {
}
userdb passwd {
}
namespace inbox {
  inbox = yes
  separator = /
}
sieve_script personal {
}

Aki

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