Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2011 22:32:40 +0000 From: RW <rwmaillists@googlemail.com> To: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Dovecot Sieve Message-ID: <20110221223240.53f42f74@gumby.homeunix.com> In-Reply-To: <4D62C01C.4000404@gmail.com> References: <4D62B96C.9090301@webrz.net> <4D62C01C.4000404@gmail.com>
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On Mon, 21 Feb 2011 20:42:20 +0100 Niclas Zeising <niclas.zeising@gmail.com> wrote: > As far as I can tell, dovecot-managesieve is the server part of sieve. > You can have it running to be able to use a sieve client to define > your sieve programs, instead of having to log on to the mail server > and edit a script file on the local harddrive. This is convenient if > you use virtual users or just don't want to give every user a login > shell on the mail server, but still make it possible for them to > define their own mail sorting rules. In practice managesieve support isn't widespread enough for it to be a sole mean of updating scripts, so it's common to provide a webpage for the purpose, which may use managesieve as a standard interface. Going through managesieve prevents a script with syntax errors overwriting a working script.
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