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Dovecot 1.1.11 + managesieve + CMU Sieve Solaris pkgs

Wednesday, Mar 11. 2009  –  Category: Grommit, OpenSolaris

I’d been looking for a good way to do server-side mail filtering with client side configuration… and short of some lame CGI interfaces to editing your .procmailrc, I hadn’t found much until I discovered Sieve a few days ago.  To skip a long and boring story, I rebuilt a bunch of packages (yay for JDS’s spec build system) for the following:

• Dovecot IMAP server (1.1.11)
• Dovecot’s CMU Sieve plugin (1.1.6)
• Dovecot’s managesieve plugin (0.10.5)

Quick summary: Dovecot is a wicked awesome IMAP server.  Sieve provides a way of doing mail filtering.  managesieve is an protocol to allow users to modify their sieve filters via the IMAP protocol.

I use Roundcube Webmail on my server, and there is a super-nice Roundcube Managesieve plugin available.

So I built and installed my Dovecot packages, installed the Roundcube Managesieve plugin, and I’m off and flying with awesome client-configurable mail filtering while allowing the mail filtering itself to be done server-side.

I’ve made the packages available here (14 MB download).  This SVr4 pkg contains SFEdovecot, SFEdovecot-cmusieve, SFEdovecot-managesieve, and the SFEdovecot-root (configuration files) packages.