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From: (no name) (no email)
Date: Mon Feb 28 2005 - 10:57:18 EST
Kevin,
Kevin M. Myer wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have a problem that periodically crops up, then usually goes away and I never
> get around to diagnosing the root cause of it. It seems to be triggered
> whenever I set a vacation/out of office message. When I enable a vacation
> message, messages that would normally be filed into folders start appearing in
> my INBOX. It becomes annoying quickly when you come back and have to sort
> through 300+ messages to find the things you want to see (other mail is list
> mail and system log messages). Normally, disabling the vacation notification
> solves the problem but this time it didn't.
>
> What I find even stranger is there appears to be no rhyme or reason for letting
> one message be filtered and another not. I'm getting a lot of virus
> notifications for the latest version of the Bagle worm. The majority of these
> are filed into my virus folder. A few end up in my INBOX. All should be
> caught by the same sieve script but aren't. Same with list mail and system log
> messages. The bulk are filtered properly but a few sneak through into my
> INBOX. The messages that come through appear to be identical in nature to the
> messages that are filed. It appears as if Sieve gets periodicaly overwhelmed,
> and just gives up on filtering for short periods of time.
>
> I haven't been able to rule out that there's a bug in the program that I use to
> generate the scripts (Ingo 1.0.1 from the Horde project). So I'm wondering if
> there is a way I can take a message that made it by Sieve, and somehow run
> Sieve in test mode, in much the same manner you can test ClamAV or
> SpammAssassin on a message and have it report back what the results are for a
> single message. I'd like to have it run through my sieve script, show me the
> matches and then tell me what it would have done with the message.
>
> Short of there being a bug in the script itself, does anyone else have any ideas
> why Sieve behaves erratically, apparently triggered by turning vacation notices
> on, and then will eventually clear itself up?
What do your logs say? Are there lmtpd errors present?
I had a problem with the sieve lexer/parser not resetting its state
after a runtime error (see bug #1951) in version 2.1.16. If you're
using the 2.1 version check out the patch attached to the bug.
>
> Thanks,
> Kevin
>
Bye,
Henk
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