Sieve (Pigeonhole) Installation

Prebuilt Binaries

TIP

This is the recommended way of installing Dovecot/Pigeonhole.

Pigeonhole is the name of the project that adds support for the Sieve language (RFC 5228) and the ManageSieve protocol (RFC 5804) to Dovecot (dovecot(1)).

You can get pigeonhole packages from https://repo.dovecot.org/.

OS Distributions

Dovecot/Pigeonhole is packaged by many OS distributions.

Search your package manager for 'dovecot', 'pigeonhole', or 'sieve' to discover the packages on your particular system.

Getting the Sources

You can download the latest released sources from the Pigeonhole download page.

Alternatively, you can get the sources, including the most recent unreleased changes, from the GitHub repository.

Compiling

If you downloaded the Git sources, you will need to execute ./autogen.sh first to build the automake structure in your source tree. This process requires autotools and libtool to be installed.

If you installed Dovecot from sources, Pigeonhole's configure script should be able to find the installed dovecot-config automatically:

$ ./configure
$ make
$ sudo make install

If this doesn't work, you can use --with-dovecot=<path> configure option, where the path points to a directory containing dovecot-config file. This can point to an installed file:

$ ./configure --with-dovecot=/usr/local/lib/dovecot
$ make
$ sudo make install

or to Dovecot source directory that is already compiled:

$ ./configure --with-dovecot=../dovecot-2.3.21/
$ make
$ sudo make install

IMPORTANT

You need to recompile Pigeonhole when you upgrade Dovecot to a new version, because otherwise the Sieve interpreter plugin will fail to load with a version error.