Introduction

The Hedwig provides Sieve support for Local Delivery Agent(LDA). The Sieve interpreter filters incoming messages using a script written in the Sieve language (RFC 5528). The Sieve script is provided by the user and the user can customize how incoming messages are handled. Messages can be delivered to specific folders, forwarded, rejected, discarded, etc.

Sieve script location

By default, Hedwig looks for the user's default Sieve script file in the user's home directory. The user's default script file name is default.sieve.

If user's private Sieve script does not exist, then global Sieve script is used which is located in the domain's home directory.

Sieve examples

Store messages into specific folder/subfolder by various header values.

# Declare any optional features or extension used by the script.
require ["fileinto", "reject"]

if header :contains "subject" ["order", "buy"] {
        # Forward mails with "order" or "buy" in their subject to another address.
        redirect "order@example.com";
        stop;
}
if size :over 1M {
        # Reject any large messages.
        reject "Please do not send me large attachments. Put your file on a server and send me the URL.";
        stop;
}
if header :is "Sender" ""owner-ietf-mta-filters@imc.org" {
        # Handle messages from known mailing lists.
        # Move messages from IETF filter discussion list to filter folder.
        fileinto "filter";
} elsif address :domain :is ["From", "To"] "example.com" {
        # Keep all messages to or from people in my company
        keep;
} elsif anyof (not address :all :contains ["To", "Cc", "Bcc"] "me@example.com", 
                        header :matches "subject" ["*make*money*fast*", "*university*dipl*mas*"]) {
        # Try and catch unsolicited email.
        # If a message is not to me, or it contains a subject known to be spam, file it away.
        fileinto "spam";
} else {
        # Move all other (non-company) mail to "personal" folder.
        fileinto "personal";
}