[Dovecot] FYI: timosieved

[John Peacock]

Just a heads up for all interested in using the Dovecot LDA with SIEVE 
scripting:

I've started work on a proof-of-concept managesieve daemon, since the 
only one available right now is dependent on Cyrus.  It appears that the 
only choice available for sites not using timsieved is the Ingo 
component of Horde, which is way too fat to install by itself (plus it 
uses FTP for a transport, which I make it a rule not to install).

For testing purposes, I am hacking together a Perl module based on the 
Net::Server model (which is not suitable for production).  If this goes 
well (the managesieve protocol is painfully stupid and the only tricky 
part is linking in libsieve), then I'll do a rewrite in C.  It will 
authenticate directly to Dovecot through the auth-client (or 
auth-master) mechanism, so whatever SASL methods that Dovecot supports, 
it will support.

I've decided that the eventual server will be called timosieved, in 
honor of our host, and echoing the original Cyrus timsieved.

Don't bug me about when it'll be done...  :)

John

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