copy filterrules to another user

[dipeshmehta]

Hello,

I need to copy filter rules of one user to another user, there are nearly 100 rules! I understand this can be achieved with 'zimbraMailSieveScript' but could not find how to export and to import into another. Can anybody please tell me syntax for the same?

Thanks in advance.

Dipesh

[Cine.ZxCommunity]

A couple of shell commands are enough

zmmailbox -z -m source_mailbox@domain.org > filters.txt
sed -i 's/^/afrl /' filters.txt
zmmailbox -z -m destination_mailbox@domain.org < filters.txt

First line extracts all the filter rules from the source mailbox to a file
Second line adds 'afrl ' (Add Filter RuLe) at the beginning of each line in the file
Third line executes zmmailbox for each line of the files, adding the filters on the destination account.

Remember that the filters must be 'logically' valid on the new account (e.g. if a filter moves mail to a folder, such folder must exist)

Be sure to check out the syntax in the file after the 'sed', run it on a test mailbox if you can

[dipeshmehta]

Thanks for your guidance.

Originally Posted by Cine.ZxCommunity

zmmailbox -z -m source_mailbox@domain.org > filters.txt

First line extracts all the filter rules from the source mailbox to a file

Sorry but this didn't work. Executing command as zimbra user throws permission error

zimbra@mail:~$ zmmailbox -z -m user1@domain.com > filters.txt
-su: filters.txt: Permission denied

and running as root it gives 'command not found'

[phoenix]

Originally Posted by dipeshmehta

Sorry but this didn't work.

Of course it works.

Originally Posted by dipeshmehta

Executing command as zimbra user throws permission error

zimbra@mail:~$ zmmailbox -z -m user1@domain.com > filters.txt
-su: filters.txt: Permission denied

I guess you wrote the output file to a directory which the zimbra user actually has write permission?

Originally Posted by dipeshmehta

....and running as root it gives 'command not found'

That's hardly surprising as the vast majority of the zm* commands are run by the zimbra user.

[dipeshmehta]

Originally Posted by phoenix

I guess you wrote the output file to a directory which the zimbra user actually has write permission?

Your guess was right, sometimes silly mistakes made. I just 'su - zimbra' and entered the command with in mind that zimbra user do not need permissions for /opt/zimbra.

Originally Posted by Cine.ZxCommunity

zmmailbox -z -m source_mailbox@domain.org > filters.txt

Well, I needed to modify it little:

zmmailbox -z -m source_mailbox@domain.org gfrl > filters.txt

Rest two commands worked well, and finally all filters were copied as needed.

Thanks a lot, this saved my lot time.

Dipesh

[bofh]

Hello guys

Because i need that sometimes i thought hey why not make a little script
i know i know its a sbolute overkill but hey its just quick and dirty and prevent hopefully most errors

have fun

#!/bin/bash
#adjust this 2 values - zimbra need write perm in tmp path
#logs getting saved in your log directory as zmcopyfilter_last.log and zmcopyfilter.log

zpath="/opt/zimbra" #zimbra dir without trailing /
tmp="/tmp" #temp dir to write for zimbra user without trailing /
##############################donttouchfromhere########################################

fnstart(){
clear;
echo "Simple copy Filter Script"
echo -e "\n\n\n\n\n"
read -p "Source Username: " vus
read -p "Destination Username: " vud
fnask;
}

fnask(){
   clear;
   echo -e "\n\n\n\n\n"
   echo "Copy Filter from: " $vus
   echo "To User:          " $vud
   echo "(P)roceed or (A)bort or (R)estart"
   read -s -n 1 qpa
       case $qpa in
           p|P)fngo;;
           a|A)fnbye;;
           r|R)fnrestart;;
           *)fnask;;
   esac
}
fnrestart() {
   vus=""
   vud=""
   fnstart;
}
fnbye(){
   clear
   echo -e "\n\n\n\n\n"
   echo "Aborted no Harm done - Have a Nice Day"
   exit;
}
fngo(){
rm -f $tmp/tmpfiltercopy.txt
zmmailbox -z -m $vus gfrl > $tmp/tmpfiltercopy.txt
sed -i 's/^/afrl /' $tmp/tmpfiltercopy.txt
zmmailbox -z -m $vud < $tmp/tmpfiltercopy.txt >$zpath/log/zmcopyfilter_last.log
cat $zpath/log/zmcopyfilter_last.log >> $zpath/log/zmcopyfilter.log
clear
   echo -e "\n\n\n\n\n"
   echo "Work done hopefully nothing dead - Have a Nice Day"
   exit;
}
fnstart