Thunderbird not able to edit sieve Message Filters

[Peter Bell]

I'm not sure when this problem first occurred - it is many months since
I last editted a sieve filter. I am certainly several versions of
Thunderbird and, probably, a few versions of Dovecot on from when I last
editted a sieve filter. However, I do know that I have done so in the past.

I have just built Dovecot 2.2.13 and Pigeonhole 0.4.3, installed and
running on Slackware 14.1 x64.

I am running an up-to-date version of Thunderbird (31.0) on Arch Linux x64.

The sieve filters are definitely being applied to incoming mail, and
working perfectly well.

However, when I attempt to edit the Sieve Filters (from Thunderbird
Tools->Sieve Message Filters...), the Sieve Filters tab is displayed,
but not populated (eg, the Server Sieve Capabilities are not displayed,
and there is an endless 'hourglass' displayed in the main mailfilters pane.

Does anyone recognise the symptoms and can advise how to resolve the
problem, or suggest what logs I should examine/post in order to identify
the cause?

[Reindl Harald]

Post by Peter Bell
I am running an up-to-date version of Thunderbird (31.0) on Arch Linux x64.
The sieve filters are definitely being applied to incoming mail, and working perfectly well.
However, when I attempt to edit the Sieve Filters (from Thunderbird Tools->Sieve Message Filters...), the Sieve
Filters tab is displayed, but not populated (eg, the Server Sieve Capabilities are not displayed, and there is an
endless 'hourglass' displayed in the main mailfilters pane.
Does anyone recognise the symptoms and can advise how to resolve the problem, or suggest what logs I should
examine/post in order to identify the cause?

the extension as i tried to use it the last time pretty
clear is not compatible with recent thunderbird versiond

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[Thomas Herrmann]

Post by Peter Bell
Does anyone recognise the symptoms and can advise how to resolve the
problem, or suggest what logs I should examine/post in order to identify
the cause?

Are you using the latest nightly build of the sieve addon? All "stable"
releases are outdated.

Regards,
Thomas Herrmann



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[Robert Schetterer]

Post by Thomas Herrmann

Post by Peter Bell
Does anyone recognise the symptoms and can advise how to resolve the
problem, or suggest what logs I should examine/post in order to identify
the cause?

Are you using the latest nightly build of the sieve addon? All "stable"
releases are outdated.
Regards,
Thomas Herrmann

https://sys4.de/de/blog/2014/08/14/sieve-thunderbird-add-on/

....
https://github.com/thsmi/sieve/blob/master/nightly/README.md



Best Regards
MfG Robert Schetterer

[Tim Dickson]

you need the updated beta sieve plugin 0.2.3d
https://github.com/thsmi/sieve/blob/master/nightly/0.2.3/sieve-0.2.3d.xpi

see https://github.com/thsmi/sieve/issues/26
for the reason why it is not available via mozilla plugins site

this should fix the problem in thunderbird.
(I use it myself having had the same issue)
Regards, Tim

Post by Peter Bell
I'm not sure when this problem first occurred - it is many months
since I last editted a sieve filter. I am certainly several versions
of Thunderbird and, probably, a few versions of Dovecot on from when I
last editted a sieve filter. However, I do know that I have done so
in the past.
I have just built Dovecot 2.2.13 and Pigeonhole 0.4.3, installed and
running on Slackware 14.1 x64.
I am running an up-to-date version of Thunderbird (31.0) on Arch Linux x64.
The sieve filters are definitely being applied to incoming mail, and
working perfectly well.
However, when I attempt to edit the Sieve Filters (from Thunderbird
Tools->Sieve Message Filters...), the Sieve Filters tab is displayed,
but not populated (eg, the Server Sieve Capabilities are not
displayed, and there is an endless 'hourglass' displayed in the main
mailfilters pane.
Does anyone recognise the symptoms and can advise how to resolve the
problem, or suggest what logs I should examine/post in order to
identify the cause?

[Peter Bell]

Thanks to those who replied. Upgrading the TB sieve plugin to 0.2.3d
has resolved the issue.

Post by Tim Dickson
you need the updated beta sieve plugin 0.2.3d
https://github.com/thsmi/sieve/blob/master/nightly/0.2.3/sieve-0.2.3d.xpi
see https://github.com/thsmi/sieve/issues/26
for the reason why it is not available via mozilla plugins site
this should fix the problem in thunderbird.
(I use it myself having had the same issue)
Regards, Tim

Post by Peter Bell
However, when I attempt to edit the Sieve Filters (from Thunderbird
Tools->Sieve Message Filters...), the Sieve Filters tab is displayed,
but not populated (eg, the Server Sieve Capabilities are not
displayed, and there is an endless 'hourglass' displayed in the main
mailfilters pane.