Changing the location of the sieve-filter-file

[osterhase]

Hi there!

My story to migrate from an postfixadmin administrated mail-server to an ISPConfig managed one goes on: It all worked fine so far. The database is in place and existing users are able to send and receive mail. Their mailfilters are respected and used.

I've figured that ISPConfig is using a slightly different directory structure when a new mailbox is created than has been used before. Especially the filter-rule-file is created on a different place.

The location of the filterrule file in the current setup is /var/vmail/[domain]/[user]/sieve/dovecot.sieve whereas ISPConfig wants to use /var/vmail/[domain]/[user]/sieve

At first I've modfied /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf as follows:

user_query = SELECT email as user, maildir as home, CONCAT('maildir:', maildir, '') as mail, uid, gid, CONCAT('maildir:storage=', floor(quota/1024)) AS quota, CONCAT(maildir, '/sieve/dovecot.sieve') as sieve FROM mail_user WHERE email = '%u'

Next I've taught ISPConfig in /usr/local/ispconfig/server/plugins-enabled/maildeliver_plugin.inc.php the new location of the filterrule:
[Line 99]:

$sieve_file = $data["new"]["maildir"].'/sieve/dovecot.sieve';

My next problem is that in /usr/local/ispconfig/server/plugins-enabled/mail_plugin.inc.php the subfolder "sieve" is not created. I would like to create that folder when the subfolders Junk, Trash, Sent and Inbox are created. Due it is a normal folder and not a maildir I can't use existing code. To admit that: I'm not much of a php-coder. Is it sufficient to add the creation of that folder in the mentioned file - and - (I feel a bit ashamed) with which code-line?

The next point whereas ISPConfig creates a separate "Maildir" in a newly created mailbox, I want to have the folders Junk, Trash, Sent and the Inbox directly in /var/vmail/[domain]/[user]. So I have simply removed that bit in the mail_plugin.inc.php, from:

$maildomain_path .= '/Maildir';

to

$maildomain_path .= '';

two times. Is that suffiecient to fulfill my goal?

I would appreciate any help.

Uuh... btw: ISPConfig 3.0.3.3, Debain Squeeze (6.0), Postfix, Dovecot

[till]

My next problem is that in /usr/local/ispconfig/server/plugins-enabled/mail_plugin.inc.php the subfolder "sieve" is not created. I would like to create that folder when the subfolders Junk, Trash, Sent and Inbox are created. Due it is a normal folder and not a maildir I can't use existing code. To admit that: I'm not much of a php-coder. Is it sufficient to add the creation of that folder in the mentioned file - and - (I feel a bit ashamed) with which code-line?

The command to create a directory is:

mkdir("/path/to/the/directory");

two times. Is that suffiecient to fulfill my goal?

Yes. But be aware that some email client will complain when you use a structure without the Maildir directory. We had that before but it causes errors in outlook if I remember correctly, as outlook requires that no other files or folders are in the directory that contains the mailfolders, otherwise it will display the foolders in the imap folder list and will show a error if someone tries to subscribe to that "non maildir" folder.

[osterhase]

Hey till - thanks for your fast response. You really keep me crackin'

That MUAs throw errors on non-maildir-folders is quite news to me. Maybe I was just lucky my clients did not use such MUAs... (to change that stuff would be quite a major fuck-off). Anyways - have to prepare for a journey. I'll answer back as soon as I'm able to.

[osterhase]

I do not mean to rise this from the dead, but for the sake of completeness:

if(!is_dir($data['new']['dir'].'/sieve')) {
	mkdir($maildomain_path.'/sieve', 0700);
	exec("chown ".escapeshellcmd($mail_config['mailuser_name']).":".escapeshellcmd($mail_config['mailuser_group'])." ".escapeshellcmd($maildomain_path)."/sieve");
}

Thanks for your help!