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Editing: Pigeonhole.ManageSieve.Configuration.txt
ManageSieve Configuration ========================= *NOTE*: If you have used the Sieve plugin before and you have '.dovecot.sieve' files in user directories, you are advised to *make a backup first*. Although theManageSieve daemon takes care to move these files to the Sieve storage before it is substituted with a symbolic link, this is not a very well tested operation, meaning that there is a possibility that existing Sieve scripts get lost. The ManageSieve configuration consists of ManageSieve protocol settings and <Sieve interpreter> [Pigeonhole.Sieve.txt]-related settings. The Sieve interpreter settings are shared with settings of the <Sieve plugin> [Pigeonhole.Sieve.txt] for Dovecot's <Local Delivery Agent (LDA)> [LDA.txt] and <LMTP.txt>. First, the ManageSieve protocol settings are outlined and then the relevant Sieve settings are described. Protocol Configuration ---------------------- Along with all other binaries that Dovecot uses, the managesieve and managesieve-login binaries are installed during 'make install' of the <Pigeonhole.txt> package. The only thing you need to do to activate the ManageSieve protocol support in Dovecot is to add 'sieve' to the 'protocols=' configuration line in your dovecot.conf. The managesieve daemon will listen on port 4190 by default. As the implementation of the managesieve daemon is largely based on the original IMAP implementation, it is very similar in terms of configuration. In addition to most mail daemon config settings, the managesieve daemon accepts a few more. The following settings can be configured in the 'protocol sieve' section: managesieve_max_line_length = 65536: The maximum ManageSieve command line length in bytes. This setting is directly borrowed from IMAP. But, since long command lines are very unlikely withManageSieve, changing this will not be very useful. managesieve_logout_format = bytes=%i/%o: Specifies the string pattern used to compose the logout message of an authenticated session. The following substitutions are available: : ---%<----------------------------------------------------------------------- %i - total number of bytes read from client %o - total number of bytes sent to client ---%<----------------------------------------------------------------------- managesieve_implementation_string = Dovecot Pigeonhole: To fool ManageSieve clients that are focused on CMU's timesieved you can specify the IMPLEMENTATION capability that the Dovecot reports to clients (e.g. 'Cyrus timsieved v2.2.13'). managesieve_max_compile_errors = 5: The maximum number of compile errors that are returned to the client upon script upload or script verification. managesieve_sieve_capability =, managesieve_notify_capability = : Respectively the SIEVE and NOTIFY capabilities reported by the ManageSieve service before authentication. If left unassigned, these will be assigned dynamically according to what the Sieve interpreter supports by default (after login this may differ depending on the authenticated user). Sieve Interpreter Configuration ------------------------------- The part of the <Sieve interpreter> [Pigeonhole.Sieve.txt] configuration that is relevant forManageSieve mainly consists of the settings that specify where the user's scripts are stored and where the active script is located. TheManageSieve service primarily uses the following Sieve interpreter setting in the 'plugin' section of the Dovecot configuration: sieve = file:~/sieve;active=~/.dovecot.sieve : This specifies the <location> [Pigeonhole.Sieve.Configuration.txt] where the scripts that are uploaded throughManageSieve are stored. During delivery, the LDA Sieve plugin uses this location setting to find the active script for Sieve filtering. The Sieve include extension uses this location for retrieving ":personal" scripts. If the location type does not allow uploading scripts, theManageSieve service cannot be used. Currently, only the ' <file> [Pigeonhole.Sieve.Configuration.File.txt]' <location type> [Pigeonhole.Sieve.Configuration.txt] supports ManageSieve. : For the ' <file> [Pigeonhole.Sieve.Configuration.File.txt]' <location type> [Pigeonhole.Sieve.Configuration.txt]: * The location is the path to the storage directory for all the user's personal Sieve scripts. Scripts are stored as separate files with extension '.sieve'. All other files are ignored when scripts are listed by aManageSieve client. The storage directory is always generated automatically if it does not exist (as far as the system permits the user to do so; no root privileges are used). This is similar to the behavior of the mail daemons regarding the 'mail_location' configuration. * ManageSieve maintains a symbolic link pointing to the currently active script (the script executed at delivery). The location of this symbolic link can be configured using the ';active=<path>' option. If a regular file already exists at the location specified by in the ';active=<path>' location option, it is moved to the storage directory before the symbolic link is installed. It is renamed to 'dovecot.orig.sieve' and therefore listed as 'dovecot.orig' by a ManageSieve client. *Note:* It is not wise to place this active symbolic link inside your mail store, as it may be mistaken for a mail folder. Inside a maildir for instance, the default '.dovecot.sieve' would show up as phantom folder //dovecot/sieve/ in your IMAP tree. : For Pigeonhole versions before v0.3.1, this setting can only be a filesystem path pointing to a script file, or - whenManageSieve is used - it is the location of the symbolic link pointing to the active script in the storage directory. That storage directory is then configured using the deprecated 'sieve_dir' setting. Quota Support ------------- By default, users can manage an unlimited number of Sieve scripts on the server throughManageSieve. However, ManageSieve can be configured to enforce limits on the number of personal Sieve scripts per user and/or the amount of disk storage used by these scripts. The maximum size of individual uploaded scripts is dictated by the configuration of the <Sieve interpreter> [Pigeonhole.Sieve.txt]. The limits are configured in the plugin section of the Dovecot configuration as follows: sieve_max_script_size = 1M: The maximum size of a Sieve script. sieve_quota_max_scripts = 0: The maximum number of personal Sieve scripts a single user can have. sieve_quota_max_storage = 0: The maximum amount of disk storage a single user's scripts may occupy. A value of 0 for these settings means that no limit is enforced. Examples -------- The following provides example configurations for ManageSieve in dovecot.conf for the various versions. Only sections relevant toManageSieve and the Sieve plugin are shown. Refer to 20-managesieve.conf in doc/dovecot/example-config/conf.d, but don't forget to add 'sieve' to the 'protocols' setting if you use it. ---%<------------------------------------------------------------------------- ... service managesieve-login { #inet_listener sieve { # port = 4190 #} #inet_listener sieve_deprecated { # port = 2000 #} # Number of connections to handle before starting a new process. Typically # the only useful values are 0 (unlimited) or 1. 1 is more secure, but 0 # is faster. <doc/wiki/LoginProcess.txt> #service_count = 1 # Number of processes to always keep waiting for more connections. #process_min_avail = 0 # If you set service_count=0, you probably need to grow this. #vsz_limit = 64M } service managesieve { # Max. number of ManageSieve processes (connections) #process_limit = 1024 } # Service configuration protocol sieve { # Maximum ManageSieve command line length in bytes. ManageSieve usually does # not involve overly long command lines, so this setting will not normally need # adjustment #managesieve_max_line_length = 65536 # Maximum number of ManageSieve connections allowed for a user from each IP address. # NOTE: The username is compared case-sensitively. #mail_max_userip_connections = 10 # Space separated list of plugins to load (none known to be useful so far). Do NOT # try to load IMAP plugins here. #mail_plugins = # MANAGESIEVE logout format string: # %i - total number of bytes read from client # %o - total number of bytes sent to client #managesieve_logout_format = bytes=%i/%o # To fool ManageSieve clients that are focused on CMU's timesieved you can specify # the IMPLEMENTATION capability that the dovecot reports to clients. # For example: 'Cyrus timsieved v2.2.13' #managesieve_implementation_string = Dovecot Pigeonhole # Explicitly specify the SIEVE and NOTIFY capability reported by the server before # login. If left unassigned these will be reported dynamically according to what # the Sieve interpreter supports by default (after login this may differ depending # on the user). #managesieve_sieve_capability = #managesieve_notify_capability = # The maximum number of compile errors that are returned to the client upon script # upload or script verification. #managesieve_max_compile_errors = 5 # Refer to 90-sieve.conf for script quota configuration and configuration of # Sieve execution limits. } plugin { # Used by both the Sieve plugin and the ManageSieve protocol sieve = file:~/sieve;active=~/.dovecot.sieve } ---%<------------------------------------------------------------------------- Proxy ----- Like Dovecot's imapd, the ManageSieve login daemon supports proxying to multiple backend servers. The <proxy configuration wiki page> [PasswordDatabase.ExtraFields.Proxy.txt] for POP3 and IMAP applies automatically toManageSieve as well. Migration from Dovecot v1.x ManageSieve --------------------------------------- The following has changed since the ManageSieve releases for Dovecot v1.x: * For Dovecot v1.0 and v1.1, the 'sieve_dir' setting used by ManageSieve was called 'sieve_storage'. Also, the 'sieve' and 'sieve_storage' settings were located inside the 'protocol managesieve' section of the configuration. As per Dovecot v1.2 these settings are shared with the Sieve plugin and located in the 'plugin' section of the configuration. Make sure you have updated the name of the 'sieve_dir' setting and the location of both these settings if you are upgrading fromManageSieve for Dovecot v1.0/v1.1. * Pigeonhole ManageSieve does not use the 'mail_location' configuration as a fall-back anymore to determine a default location for storing Sieve scripts. It always uses the 'sieve_dir' setting, with default value '~/sieve'. * The Pigeonhole ManageSieve service now binds to TCP port 4190 by default due to the IANA port assignment for theManageSieve service. When upgrading from v1.x, this should be taken into account. For a smooth transition, the service can be configured manually to listen on both port 2000 and port 4190, as demonstrated in the example section. * The Dovecot configuration now calls the ManageSieve protocol 'sieve' instead of 'managesieve' because it is registered as such with IANA. The binaries and the services are still called 'managesieve' and 'managesieve-login'. The example section demonstrates how this affects the configuration. (This file was created from the wiki on 2019-06-19 12:42)
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