Dovecot ManageSieve Server
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ManageSieve service is used to manage a user's <Sieve> [LDA.Sieve.txt] script
collection. It has the following advantages over doing it directly via
filesystem:

 * No need to let users log in via FTP/SFTP/etc, which could be difficult
   especially with virtual users.
 * ManageSieve is a standard protocol
   [http://tools.ietf.org/id/draft-martin-managesieve-12.txt] (although still a
   draft), so users can manage their scripts using (hopefully)
   user-friendlyManageSieve clients. Many webmails already include a
   ManageSieve client.
 * Scripts are compiled before they are installed, which guarantees that the
   uploaded script is valid. This prevents a user from inadvertently installing
   a broken Sieve script.

Dovecot's ManageSieve support is distributed in a separate package. Currently
it also requires patching Dovecot sources, but this won't be necessary anymore
in Dovecot v2.0. There exists also an alternative pysieved
[http://woozle.org/~neale/src/pysieved/] ManageSieve server that works with
Dovecot.

 * <Download and Installation> [ManageSieve.Install.txt]
 * <Configuration> [ManageSieve.Configuration.txt]
 * <Troubleshooting> [ManageSieve.Troubleshooting.txt]
 * <Client Issues> [ManageSieve.Clients.txt]

Contact Info
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 * Author: Stephan Bosch, stephan@rename-it.nl
 * IRC: Freenode [http://freenode.net/], #dovecot, S[r]us
 * Please use the Dovecot mailing list
   [http://www.dovecot.org/mailinglists.html] for questions about the
   ManageSieve service. You don't have to subscribe to it. 

(This file was created from the wiki on 2009-10-16 04:42)