Re: [Dovecot] Sieve/pigeonhole rejects email addresses for valid UNIX users

2012-08-28 Thread Timo Sirainen
On 22.8.2012, at 9.56, David Anderson wrote: > Aug 22 07:50:56 levi dovecot: lda(da...@example.com): Error: sieve: envelope > sender address 'testus...@myhost.example.com' is unparsable Also is this really rejecting the mail?.. When I looked at it I thought it would simply replace the sender wi

Re: [Dovecot] Sieve/pigeonhole rejects email addresses for valid UNIX users

2012-08-28 Thread Stephan Bosch
Op 8/22/2012 8:56 AM, David Anderson schreef: Self-explanatory, I hope (note the period on the end of the username); sieve/pigeonhole does not allow you to have senders which end with a period, which means that any UNIX users with such usernames who send mail have it rejected by sieve: # us

Re: [Dovecot] Sieve/pigeonhole rejects email addresses for valid UNIX users

2012-08-22 Thread David Anderson
On 22/08/12 19:20, Gábor Lénárt wrote: I guess what an RFC says about "email address syntax" is valid rule for both sender _and_ recipient. Perhaps it would be best if dovecot applied a policy (whatever policy) consistently. It was a surprise to me to transition from CMU sieve to Pigeonhole

Re: [Dovecot] Sieve/pigeonhole rejects email addresses for valid UNIX users

2012-08-22 Thread Gábor Lénárt
On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 06:45:17PM +0300, David Anderson wrote: > There are no incoming mail accounts for those users. The server in > question is a webserver. Every website has a unique UNIX user, for > security when running scripts. You can't virtualise that. If you run > all your scripts under

Re: [Dovecot] Sieve/pigeonhole rejects email addresses for valid UNIX users

2012-08-22 Thread David Anderson
On 22/08/12 18:16, Gábor Lénárt wrote: I think nowdays it's a bit outdated to have 1:1 mapping between UNIX users and email addresses anyway. Maybe it's OK, but it's surely problematic in case of mass hosting with many users with policies like you mentioned as well. Virtual users (in the sense

Re: [Dovecot] Sieve/pigeonhole rejects email addresses for valid UNIX users

2012-08-22 Thread Gábor Lénárt
Hi, On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 09:56:04AM +0300, David Anderson wrote: > Self-explanatory, I hope (note the period on the end of the > username); sieve/pigeonhole does not allow you to have senders which > end with a period, which means that any UNIX users with such > usernames who send mail have it

[Dovecot] Sieve/pigeonhole rejects email addresses for valid UNIX users

2012-08-22 Thread David Anderson
Self-explanatory, I hope (note the period on the end of the username); sieve/pigeonhole does not allow you to have senders which end with a period, which means that any UNIX users with such usernames who send mail have it rejected by sieve: # useradd testuser. # su - testuser. $ mail da...@e