http://sieve.info/ 2026-05-25T02:04:33+03:00 http://sieve.info/ http://sieve.info/lib/tpl/sieveinfo/images/favicon.ico text/html 2008-02-06T17:00:07+03:00 http://sieve.info/about?rev=1202310007&do=diff Hosting Sieve.Info exists thanks to: * Alexey Melnikov (Isode), who sponsors the domain name. * The email.uoa.gr team of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Network Operations Centre, who sponsor the hosting. It also greatly owes its existence to the original web pages about Sieve, which were hosted by Isamet co. (former Cyrusoft) and maintained by Cyrus Daboo. text/html 2012-02-01T22:57:41+03:00 http://sieve.info/clients?rev=1328129861&do=diff Desktop Clients * Mulberry is a Cross-platform Mail / Contacts / Calendar Client that supports Sieve script generation and upload via ManageSieve. * The Thunderbird Sieve extension provides ManageSieve support for Mozilla Thunderbird. * TrustedBird, an e-mail client based on Mozilla Thunderbird, supports vacation notifications and redirections using Sieve. text/html 2013-05-08T09:50:44+03:00 http://sieve.info/contributing?rev=1367995844&do=diff Sieve.info is a wiki site. It can be edited by anyone who wishes to provide information, documents, tutorials and links to other resources. Registering In order to avoid content spamming, registration is required. The account registration only requires a valid email address, which is used to retrieve the password. Please register a new account at the address: <http://sieve.info/register?do=register> . (Note that sometimes the e-mail that is dispatched can be marked as spam by some providers, s… text/html 2020-02-08T22:15:26+03:00 http://sieve.info/documents?rev=1581192926&do=diff Standards Track Documents (RFCs) Sieve Base Spec * RFC 5228: Sieve: A Mail Filtering Language This document describes a language for filtering email messages at time of final delivery. It is designed to be implementable on either a mail client or mail server. It is meant to be extensible, simple, and independent of access protocol, mail architecture, and operating system. It is suitable for running on a mail server where users may not be allowed to execute arbitrary programs, such as … text/html 2007-11-07T19:18:03+03:00 http://sieve.info/draft-3028bis?rev=1194455883&do=diff Version -13 was approved for publication!!! text/html 2011-10-21T22:38:24+03:00 http://sieve.info/draft-reject?rev=1319225904&do=diff * “SHOULD be incompatible with other actions” is too strong, for example there are good reasons to do reject+fileinto. * Non ASCII text in rejection string - should it cause creation of DSN/MDN, runtime error or stripping of non-ASCII content? * Should we add a tagged argument to control this? * Or maybe we need another capability to enable UTF-8 clean rejection? text/html 2011-11-23T11:19:16+03:00 http://sieve.info/examplescripts?rev=1322039956&do=diff You can edit this page and provide example scripts that other people might find useful. The Wikipedia article on Sieve has an example Sieve script: * <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sieve_%28mail_filtering_language%29#Example> A Sieve tutorial with many examples: text/html 2011-10-21T22:38:24+03:00 http://sieve.info/history?rev=1319225904&do=diff Sieve mail filtering language was inspired by (and hopefully lessons were learned) from the Flames filtering language. The history of Sieve language is described below: Date Event 1994-95informal meetings between the University of Washington and Carnegie Mellon University on IMAP issues touch upon mail filtering architecture. An initial architectural proposal is made for how server-side filtering of mail might work.December 7, 1995At IMSP BOF at 34th IETF Meeting at Dallas, Texas, discussion … text/html 2008-02-06T13:39:32+03:00 http://sieve.info/implementations?rev=1202297972&do=diff This space is intended to be a single-stop listing of all announced available Sieve implementations, or pre-announcements of any work in progress as made by any individual, organization, or company. Other implementations might be underway for commercial and/or proprietary products by a number of companies. Check the mailing list archives for details, questions, or hints based on the participants' comments. text/html 2024-05-02T20:57:24+03:00 http://sieve.info/libraries?rev=1714672644&do=diff Sieve (The Language Itself) The following projects provide parsers for the Sieve Language. * CMU's Sieve and ManageSieve implementation is available as part of the Cyrus IMAP Project. * Language: C * Sieve-Parser's sieve-parser is a pure-ruby implementation for parsing and manipulate the sieve scripts. * Language: Ruby text/html 2011-10-21T22:38:24+03:00 http://sieve.info/managesieve?rev=1319225904&do=diff The Sieve specifications normally describe Sieve as a mail filtering language, that is, focus on its syntax, capabilities and usage. However, there is a need for users to upload in some way their Sieve scripts to their respective mail servers, when server-side filtering is desired. Thus the ManageSieve protocol was born. text/html 2011-10-21T22:38:24+03:00 http://sieve.info/overview?rev=1319225904&do=diff The following description of Sieve is from the Internet Draft describing the Sieve language (linked below), by Tim Showalter, adapted and expanded by Matt Wall: Sieve is a language that can be used to create filters for electronic mail. It is not tied to any particular operating system or mail architecture. It requires the use of RFC 822-compliant messages, but otherwise should generalize to other systems that meet these criteria. text/html 2011-10-21T22:38:24+03:00 http://sieve.info/references?rev=1319225904&do=diff * Sieve Language Reference from the Mozilla Sieve extension text/html 2012-07-09T10:35:46+03:00 http://sieve.info/servers?rev=1341819346&do=diff * AfterLogic ManageSieve Server, a standalone Sieve server. * The Alt-N Technologies SecurityGateway has a filtering engine which is based upon the Sieve mail filtering language. * Archiveopteryx is an IMAP and SMTP Server with Sieve support on IMAP level. text/html 2013-05-08T09:42:41+03:00 http://sieve.info/start?rev=1367995361&do=diff What is Sieve? Sieve (RFC 5228) is a language for filtering e-mail messages. It is designed to be implementable on either a mail client or mail server. It is meant to be extensible, simple and independent of access protocol, mail architecture and operating system. It is suitable for running on a mail server where users may not be allowed to execute arbitrary programs, such as on black box IMAP servers, since in its basic form it has no variables, loops or ability to shell out to external pro… text/html 2011-09-21T17:33:14+03:00 http://sieve.info/tutorials?rev=1316615594&do=diff * Basic Sieve Tutorial (targeted towards FastMail.fm users, in FastMail.fm Wiki) * Simple Sieve Scripts - Sieve script implementation on Vircom modusMail and modusGate servers. * Sieve Tutorial - Sieve tutorial with many examples. text/html 2008-06-08T16:17:41+03:00 http://sieve.info/webservices?rev=1212931061&do=diff Parsers / Testers Sieve Tester Fastmail's Sieve Tester tests the syntax of Sieve scripts and checks what actions a script causes to the provided email message. Sieve tester can be found at: <http://www.fastmail.fm/docs/sieve/sievetest.php> Sieve Parser in PHP (by libsieve-php) The libsieve-php open-source project provides a basic online parser for Sieve. text/html 2011-10-21T22:38:24+03:00 http://sieve.info/whitepapers?rev=1319225904&do=diff The “Sieve Manifesto” aka Sieve White Paper, aka “The Sieve Language and a General Model for Delivery and Interoperable Filtering in Internet Mail” is available in PDF format here or in a somewhat uglier version in HTML. This is version 2.00, updated in February, 2001 to reflect the evolution of Sieve to date. text/html 2011-10-22T13:04:53+03:00 http://sieve.info/workinggroup?rev=1319277893&do=diff The Sieve Working Group web page at IETF is the authoritative home of the Working Group, describing the group's goals, milestones and providing all related RFCs and Internet Drafts. The tools.ietf.org Sieve WG page shows up-to-date status of various WG drafts.