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

Hi!

Mar 09 09:51:59 lmtp(testuser1)<274><E8i8DzSYrmkSAQAAUraM8A>: Debug: sieve: msgid=unspecified: Finished executing implicit keep action (status=ok)
Mar 09 09:51:59 lmtp(testuser1)<274><E8i8DzSYrmkSAQAAUraM8A>: Debug: sieve: msgid=unspecified: Finalizing actions
Mar 09 09:51:59 lmtp(testuser1)<274><E8i8DzSYrmkSAQAAUraM8A>: Debug: sieve: msgid=unspecified: Finished finalizing actions (status=ok, keep=implicit, committed=no)
Mar 09 09:51:59 lmtp(testuser1)<274><E8i8DzSYrmkSAQAAUraM8A>: Debug: sieve: msgid=unspecified: Finalize implicit keep (status=ok)
Mar 09 09:51:59 lmtp(testuser1)<274><E8i8DzSYrmkSAQAAUraM8A>: Debug: sieve: msgid=unspecified: Finalize implicit keep action(status=ok, action_status=ok, commit_status=ok)

It really seems to work just fine. I think you are probably missing come configuration, or you did not activate your sieve script.

Aki

dovecot_config_version = 2.4.2
dovecot_storage_version = 2.4.2
log_debug = category=lmtp
log_path = /dovecot.log
mail_driver = sdbox
mail_gid = vmail
mail_home = /home/vmail/%{user}
mail_path = ~/mail
mail_uid = vmail
protocols = lmtp
protocol lmtp {
  mail_plugins {
    sieve = yes
  }
}
passdb static {
  password = # hidden, use -P to show it
}
sieve_script personal {
  active_path = ~/.dovecot.sieve.active
  driver = file
  path = ~/.dovecot.sieve
  type = personal
}

~$ cat /etc/redhat-release 
Red Hat Enterprise Linux release 10.0 (Coughlan)

> On 09/03/2026 10:25 EET Patrick Starrenburg via dovecot <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>  
> > It did work for my rhel10 test. Not sure what went wrong in your case.
> 
> 
> It did give the appearance of working in my case also (the unrecognised sieve directive errors went) but Sieve functioning did not work.
> 
> Did you try any Sieve processing on your RHEL 10 machine after the workaround?
> 
> Of course it (installing dovecot-managesieved as workaround not working) could well be down to my learning Dovecot/Sieve — this is my first Dovecot setup. My Rocky Linux 9 machine is fairly clean (new install, not moving to RHEL 10 yet) and I installed from packages from the repo with no problems.
> 
> Separate but related question - is there an uninstall option for Pigeonhole that was installed compiled from source? I still have the source directory on the machine.
> 
> 
> __________________
> 
> Patrick
> 
> 
> 
> > On 9 Mar 2026, at 08:56, Aki Tuomi <[email protected]> wrote:
> > 
> > 
> >> 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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