DOVEADM-SIEVE(1) Dovecot DOVEADM-SIEVE(1)
NAME
doveadm-sieve - Commands related to handling Sieve scripts
SYNOPSIS
doveadm [GLOBAL OPTIONS] sieve_cmd [options] [arguments]
DESCRIPTION
commands are part of Pigeonhole (pigeonhole(7)), which adds Sieve (RFC
5228) and ManageSieve (RFC 5804) support to Dovecot (dovecot(1)).
The doveadm sieve commands can be used to manage Sieve filtering.
GLOBAL OPTIONS
Global doveadm(1)
-D
Enables verbosity and debug messages.
-O
Do not read any config file, just use defaults. The dovecot_stor-
age_version setting defaults to the latest version, but can be over-
ridden with
-k
Preserve entire environment for doveadm, not just import_environment
setting.
-v
Enables verbosity, including progress counter.
-i instance-name
If using multiple Dovecot instances, choose the config file based on
this instance name.
See instance_name setting for more information.
-c config-file
Read configuration from the given config-file. By default it first
reads config socket, and then falls back to /etc/dovecot/dove-
cot.conf. You can also point this to config socket of some instance
running compatible version.
-o setting=value
Overrides the configuration setting from /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf
and from the userdb with the given value. In order to override mul-
tiple settings, the -o option may be specified multiple times.
-f formatter
Specifies the formatter for formatting the output. Supported format-
ters are:
flow
prints each line with key=value pairs.
pager
prints each key: value pair on its own line and separates records
with form feed character (^L).
tab
prints a table header followed by tab separated value lines.
table
prints a table header followed by adjusted value lines.
OPTIONS
-A
If the -A option is present, the command will be performed for all
users. Using this option in combination with system users from
userdb { driver = passwd } is not recommended, because it contains
also users with a lower UID than the one configured with the
first_valid_uid setting.
When the SQL userdb module is used, make sure that the
userdb_sql_iterate_query setting setting matches your database lay-
out.
When using the LDAP userdb module, make sure that the userdb_fields
setting and userdb_ldap_iterate_fields setting settings match your
LDAP schema. Otherwise doveadm(1) will be unable to iterate over all
users.
-F file
Execute the command for all the users in the file. This is similar
to the -A option, but instead of getting the list of users from the
userdb, they are read from the given file. The file contains one
username per line.
--no-userdb-lookup
Do not perform userdb lookup. Use the USER environment variable to
specify the username.
-S socket_path
The option's argument is either an absolute path to a local UNIX do-
main socket, or a hostname and port (hostname:port), in order to
connect a remote host via a TCP socket.
This allows an administrator to execute doveadm(1) mail commands
through the given socket.
-u user/mask
Run the command only for the given user. It's also possible to use
'*' and '?' wildcards (e.g. -u *@example.org).
ARGUMENTS
scriptname
Is the name of a Sieve script, as visible to ManageSieve clients.
For Sieve scripts that are stored on disk, this is the filename
without the ".sieve" extension.
COMMANDS
sieve put
doveadm [GLOBAL OPTIONS] sieve put [-A | -u user | -F file | --no-
userdb-lookup] [-S socket_path] [-a] scriptname
This command puts one new Sieve script in the script storage. The script
is read from standard input. If the script compiles successfully, it is
stored under the provided scriptname . If the -a option is present, the
Sieve script is subsequently marked as the active script for execution
at delivery.
sieve get
doveadm [GLOBAL OPTIONS] sieve get [-A | -u user | -F file | --no-
userdb-lookup] [-S socket_path] scriptname
This command retrieves the Sieve script named scriptname.
sieve delete
doveadm [GLOBAL OPTIONS] sieve delete [-A | -u user | -F file | --no-
userdb-lookup] [-S socket_path] [-a] scriptname ...
This command deletes one or more Sieve scripts. The deleted script may
not be the active script, unless the -a option is present.
sieve list
doveadm [GLOBAL OPTIONS] sieve list [-A | -u user | -F file | --no-
userdb-lookup] [-S socket_path]
List existing Sieve scripts, and their active state.
sieve rename
doveadm [GLOBAL OPTIONS] sieve rename [-A | -u user | -F file | --no-
userdb-lookup] [-S socket_path] old_name new_name
The sieve rename command is used to rename the Sieve script old_name to
new_name.
sieve activate
doveadm [GLOBAL OPTIONS] sieve activate [-A | -u user | -F file | --no-
userdb-lookup] [-S socket_path] scriptname
This command marks the Sieve script named scriptname as the active
script for execution at delivery.
sieve deactivate
doveadm [GLOBAL OPTIONS] sieve deactivate [-A | -u user | -F file |
--no-userdb-lookup] [-S socket_path] scriptname
This command deactivates Sieve processing.
REPORTING BUGS
Report bugs, including doveconf -n output, to the Dovecot Mailing List
⟨dovecot@dovecot.org⟩. Information about reporting bugs is available at:
https://dovecot.org/bugreport.html
SEE ALSO
doveadm(1), dovecot-lda(1), pigeonhole(7)
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