sieve in dovecot is not filtering spam message

Question

In Centos 6.4 i use postfix with LDA Dovecot and webmail squiremail, amavis-new with spamassassin. Spam is marked with subject Spam. I want in my squirelmail to filter spam messages an move in to folder spam. I use sieve script /var/lib/dovecot/sieve/default.sieve

 require "fileinto";
  if exists "X-Spam-Flag" {
          if header :contains "X-Spam-Flag" "NO" {
          } else {
          fileinto "Spam";
          stop;
          }
  }
  if header :contains "subject" ["***Spam***"] {
    fileinto "Spam";
    stop;
  }

but still i have spam in my INBOX folder besides the Spam folder

commandline sievec otuput

 #sievec /var/lib/dovecot/sieve/default.sieve
    sievec(root): Error: user root: Initialization failed: Initializing mail storage from environment MAIL failed: Ambiguous mail location setting, don't know what to do with it: /var/spool/mail/root (try prefixing it with mbox: or maildir:)
    sievec(root): Fatal: Invalid user settings. Refer to server log for more information.

You saying the sieved messages are still not being filtered, or that it isn't retroactively applying the filter? — NickW, Aug 15 '13 at 12:41
Show what you have in the `mail_location`, `plugin/sieve` and `plugin/sieve_dir` config options. — Kondybas, Aug 22 '13 at 23:41

score 1 · Answer 1 · edited Dec 12 '13 at 17:36

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I had a similar problem and in my case the mail_location variable wasn't being auto detected correctly.

At /etc/dovecot/conf.d/10-mail.conf.erb set:

mail_location = maildir:~/Maildir

This will replace the default which is auto-detect.

You can see a further explanation at the comments at the same file.

edited Dec 12 '13 at 17:36

skohrs

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answered Dec 12 '13 at 14:50

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sieve in dovecot is not filtering spam message

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