[ingo] Maildrop to Sieve Fiters - Convert many users

Dale Showers ingo at fictx.com
Wed Feb 25 17:42:21 UTC 2026


I would greatly appreciate you sendintg the script. 
At the very least it may lead me in the right direction.


On 26/02/25 03:23PM, Michael Menge wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> We use sieve with Cyrus. Cyrus does allow admins to authenticate as users
> using the "PLAIN" auth_mech.
> https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc4616#section-2
> 
> I have written a php cli script that will generate and install the sieve
> script
> for one user using the admin credentials.
> 
> As PLAIN is supported by dovecot this should work there too,
> but you may need to tweak the script and your configuration.
> 
> If interested i can send you the script.
> 
> Kind Regards
> 
>    Michael Menge
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Quoting Me <ingo at fictx.com>:
> 
> > Hi. I am in the process of converting users on Horde 5 from using
> > maildrop filters to sieve.
> > I've set up the ingo sieve backend using the timsieved driver which
> > connects to a dovecot managesieve instance.
> > I was thrilled to see that I could just log into horde and save my
> > filters again and they were automatically saved as sieve.
> > 
> > I have several thousand users and I'm currently waiting for them to sign
> > in and save their filters so I can then switch
> > them to using dovecot for delivery.
> > 
> > Is there a way to re-save a users mail filters from the cli so I can
> > script it to update everyone?
> > Or a way to force the filters to auto-save when the user logs into webmail?
> > 
> > Thank you.
> > xoxo, gossip girl
> > 
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