sieve (and cyrus) - doesn't work - how to troubleshoot?

[Erik Steffl]

  Hi everybody,

  I have the following problem, I would appreaciate any help:

  briefly: sieve does not work.

  here's my setup (these are unofficial cyrus packages from
www.boxedpenguin.com):

jojda:~>dpkg -l \*cyrus\*|grep ^ii
ii  cyrus-admin    1.5.19-9       CMU Cyrus mail system (administration
tool)
ii  cyrus-common   1.6.24-2       CMU Cyrus mail system (common files)
ii  cyrus-imapd    1.6.24-2       CMU Cyrus mail system (IMAP support)
ii  cyrus-nntp     1.6.24-2       CMU Cyrus mail system (NNTP support)

  here's what I have in /etc/imapd.conf:

sieveusehomedir: true

  and here's my ~/.sieve file (straight from managin imap book):

if header :contains "subject" "123 testing sieve" {
  reject "testing sieve message rejected!";
}

  but when I send myself an email with subject "123 testing sieve" it it
is not rejected.

  where do I go from here?

  I didn't use installsieve and timsieve since I have no idea how
(timsieve appears to be server, it says it is supposed to run from inetd
but there's no info on how)

  any info/pointer appreciated.

  TIA

        erik