Confusing wording on the wiki

[Alan McGinlay]

Hi,

I am confused by the wording of this Wiki entry:

sieve = ~/.dovecot.sieve

The path to the user's main active Sieve script. When ManageSieve is
used, this is a symbolic link pointing to the active script in the
sieve_dir directory. Avoid placing the active Sieve script inside the
sieve_dir directory.

So this should be a link *to* the active script in the sieve_dir
directory however the active script shouldn't actually be in that
directory????

http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Pigeonhole/Sieve/Configuration

Confused :S

/A

[Daniel Parthey]

Post by Alan McGinlay
sieve = ~/.dovecot.sieve

This is the file/link which dovecot does load for SIEVE rule processing. Dovecot does not need to know whether this is a symlink or not.

Post by Alan McGinlay
The path to the user's main active Sieve script. When ManageSieve is
used, this is a symbolic link pointing to the active script in the
sieve_dir directory. Avoid placing the active Sieve script inside the
sieve_dir directory.

The sieve_dir is usually in directory "sieve" which is in the same directory as the .dovecot.sieve symlink. The actual files are inside of the sieve directory.

Mail_home / .dovecot.sieve -> sieve/one
Mail_home / sieve / one
Mail_home / sieve / two

Post by Alan McGinlay
So this should be a link *to* the active script in the sieve_dir
directory however the active script shouldn't actually be in that
directory?

Yes, the link should not be located in the sieve directory. And the sieve configuration directive should point to the link (or any other file to use for SIEVE).

Regards
Daniel