[Dovecot] Dovecot sieve support

[Bradley Giesbrecht]

On Jul 16, 2010, at 4:37 PM, Timo Sirainen wrote:

> On 17.7.2010, at 0.31, Daniel L. Miller wrote:
>
>>>> or at this time is it going to remain an external patch?
>>>>
>>> No. It no longer requires patching.
>>>
>>>
>> I think I asked the wrong question.  Make that, "Is Managesieve  
>> going to be merged in to the main server source
>
> No.
>
>> (at least the support for it),
>
> Well .. Isn't the support good enough already?
>
>> or at this time is it going to remain an external patch?"
>
> Patch is a wrong word. It's not a patch. But it's an external  
> plugin, and it's going to stay that way. Dovecot's and Pigeonhole's  
> developers are different and they have completely different release  
> schedules. I don't think it would even be a good idea to merge them  
> into same releases. Nowadays with v2.0 it's easy to compile  
> Pigeonhole after installing Dovecot, so I don't even see it as a  
> problem.

Daniel may be wanting to know if Dovecot v2 sources have to be patched  
to use managesieve as v1 sources do.

I believe I read that Dovecot v2 will not need to be patched to use  
Pigeonhole Managesieve.

Does Dovecot v2 need to be patched to use either of the Pigeonhole  
sieve or managesieve?


Thanks,
Bradley Giesbrecht