[Dovecot] MANAGESIEVE patch v5 for dovecot 1.0.2 [FIXED KMail]

[Stephan Bosch]

Hi Andreas,

Andreas Ntaflos schreef:
> I got this working just fine, using the method you described below. Of course 
> I had to base64-encode the "username\0username\0password" string first, which 
> is probably not so obvious to someone who doesn't have much experience 
> debugging authentication problems :)
>
> I am using KMail 1.9.7 and KDE 3.5.7 to connect to the server (KDE has a 
> kioslave for sieve). 
>
> But seeing that connecting and authenticating worked fine with gnutls-cli this 
> seems to be a KMail- oder KDE-related problem?
After a large series of frustrations about getting kdepim to compile, I 
finally found and fixed the problem in KMail. The issues were caused by 
small protocol violations in the kioslave implementation.

I constructed a small patch against kdepim 3.5.6/3.5.7. On Ubuntu/Debian 
I did not manage to do a complete kdepim build myself, because it would 
fail on strange linker errors reporting missing symbols. All I did was 
to execute ./configure in the main source tree (creating all the 
Makefiles) and then I changed directory to kioslaves/sieve and executed 
make there. This results in kio_sieve.la and kio_sieve.so being built in 
the local .libs direcory. I copied these to the location they are 
normally installed in my system (/usr/lib/kde3 for my distro), thus 
overwriting the originals.  Then I could connect to dovecot managesieve, 
list scripts, delete scripts, edit scripts and save them.

The patch can be downloaded at:

http://sinas.rename-it.nl/~sirius/kdepim_sieve_patch.diff

I submitted the patch to the kdepim mailinglist and I hope they will 
merge it into their future releases to definitively resolve these issues.

Regards,

-- 
Stephan Bosch
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