Question can i edit global sieve rules in dovecot?

[Linulex]

Is there a way to lookup and edit the global sieve rules in dovecot? Where are the standard config files? I cant find them in /etc/dovecot.

regards
Jan

 

[G J Piper]

I outlined a way to do it in Plesk 12.5, and it still works the same in Onyx. See here:
Resolved - Global Dovecot Sieve Rule?

 

[Linulex]

Thank you for your answer. I found this to, but this is not the question i have.
I asked how i can edit the default global sieve rules, your answer is how to add to them.
I suspect that some of the global rules are deleting perfectly good email.
I think it has something to do with this

Fixing discarded messages in Dovecot sieve filters due to incorrect message IDs – Sean Leavey

so i need to find the location of the global rules and how to change and or remove them.

To be honnest: it would be the best only to permit user rules.

But i did some more research this my question and i was thinking. If i would use per user "Stop processing filters" in a global_before.sieve, would that do it, or would it stop sieve all together and skip user rules as well?

In 90-plesk-sieve.conf i see

plugin {
sieve = ~/.dovecot.sieve
sieve_dir = ~/sieve

So that made me wonder: is there even a global ruleset?
I cant find a global rule file in the plesk-dovecot-pigeonhole rpm either.

regards
Jan

 

[G J Piper]

I don't think there are any filtering rules until you create them. I wouldn't think Dovecot filters out any email by default. The ones in 90-plesk-sieve.conf appear to just be enabling certain functionality for the webmail clients.

 

[Linulex]

Somehow an important email address of a client ended up in the sieve blacklist and it was deleted.

I have decided to go back to courier. Changing a few dozen of servers again after a few weeks is a hell of a job, but hey, thats what weekends are for.
I am sure someone, somewhere found sieve a good idea, but in reality i find it not working. One miss-click in webmail and important emails are gone in every client because they are from then on deleted at server level.

regards
Jan