ManageSieve client library for remotely managing Sieve scripts
Project description
A ManageSieve client library for remotely managing Sieve scripts, including an user application (the interactive ‘sieveshell’).
Sieve scripts allow users to filter incoming email on the mail server. The ManageSieve protocol allows managing Sieve scripts on a remote mail server. These servers are commonly sealed so users cannot log into them, yet users must be able to update their scripts on them. This is what for the “ManageSieve” protocol is. For more information about the ManageSieve protocol see the ManageSieve Internet draft.
This module allows accessing a Sieve-Server for managing Sieve scripts there. It is accompanied by a simple yet functional user application ‘sieveshell’.
Changes since 0.4
fixed short read (thanks to paurkedal for submitting the patch)
Changes since 0.3
- managesieve:
now works with Python 2.3 and later
added support for TLS (STARTTLS), special thanks to Gregory Boyce for fixing some corner cases here
added support for PLAIN authentication
use optparse if available instead of optik.
API change: login() no longer uses the LOGIN authentication mechanism, but has become a convenience function. It uses the best mechanism available for authenticating the user.
Several Bugfixes, see HISTORY for details.
Thanks to Tomas ‘Skitta’ Lindroos, Lorenzo Boccaccia, Alain Spineux, darkness and Gregory Boyce for sending patches.
- sieveshell:
added support for different authentication mechanisms
added option –start-tls
several other enhancements and bugfixes
Availability
‘managesieve’ is available for download at http://python-managesieve.origo.ethz.ch/
Requirements
managesieve requires Python >= 2.0
Not yet implemented
sieve-names are only quoted dump (put into quotes, but no escapes yet).
Copyright/License
Copyright (C) 2003,2008 by Hartmut Goebel <h.goebel@crazy-compilers.com>
- License: Python Software Foundation License
http://www.opensource.org/licenses/PythonSoftFoundation.html
- License for ‘sieveshell’ and test suite: GPL
Credits
Based on Sieve.py from Ulrich Eck <ueck@net-labs.de> which is part of of ‘ImapClient’ (see http://www.zope.org/Members/jack-e/ImapClient), a Zope product.
Some ideas taken from imaplib written by Piers Lauder <piers@cs.su.oz.au> et al.
Thanks to Tomas ‘Skitta’ Lindroos, Lorenzo Boccaccia, Alain Spineux, darkness and Gregory Boyce for sending patches.
