Dovecot Sieve port switched from CMU Sieve to Dovecot

RW rwmaillists at googlemail.com
Thu Aug 27 13:41:49 UTC 2009


On Thu, 27 Aug 2009 20:50:37 +0800
Denny Lin <dennylin93 at cnmc32.hs.ntnu.edu.tw> wrote:

> 
> > When I upgraded my ports yesterday Dovecot deliver stopped working.
> > It appears that not only has the sieve plugin been upgraded, but
> > it's switched from the CMU version to Dovecot's own implementation.
> > This should be documented in UPDATING - it's not covered by the
> > previous Dovecot note.
> 
> There was an entry about upgrading Dovecot to 1.2.3 (20090815).
> Follow the link and you'll see sieve on the page
> (http://wiki.dovecot.org/Upgrading/1.2).
> 

All that says is "You should consider migrating from CMU Sieve to
Dovecot Sieve". 

That's advice from the dovecot project for people that have a choice
between the two. The problem is that FreeBSD only has one dovecot-sieve
port, and it switched without warning.   




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