Apple Mac OS X Server Enabling Sieve Support, To enable Sieve support, Reload the mail service

The folder is owned by the mail service, so users normally don’t have access to it and can’t put their scripts there for mail processing. For security purposes, users and administrators upload their scripts to a Sieve process (timsieved) which transports the scripts to the mail process for use. There are various ways of getting the scripts to timsieved, such as Perl shell scripts (“sieveshell”), web mail plug-ins (“avelsieve”), and even some email clients.

Enabling Sieve Support

In order for Sieve to function, you must enable its communications port. Sieve has the vacation extension added by default. All scripts must be placed in the central script repository at /usr/sieve/, and Sieve scripts cannot be used to process mail for email aliases set up in Workgroup Manager; you must use Postfix-style aliases.

To enable Sieve support:

1Add the following entry to the services file in /etc/, using a text editor.

sieve 2000/tcp #Sieve mail filtering

2Reload the mail service.

Sample Sieve Scripts

The following scripts are examples of some common scripts that a user might want to use.

Vacation Notification Script

#--------

#This is a sample script for vacation rules.

#Read the comments following the pound/hash to find out

#what the script is doing.

#---------

#

#Make sure the vacation extension is used. require "vacation";

#Define the script as a vacation script vacation

#Send the vacation response to any given sender only once every seven days no matter how many messages are sent from him.

:days 7

#For every message sent to these addresses

:addresses ["bob@example.com", "robert.fakeuser@server.com"]

#Make a message with the following subject :subject "Out of Office Reply"

#And make the body of the message the following

"I’m out of the office and will return on December 31. I won’t be able to replay until 6 months after that. Love, Bob.";

# End of Script

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