[Dovecot] LDA sieve library

Timo Sirainen tss at iki.fi
Sat Mar 25 13:14:40 EET 2006


On Mon, 2006-03-20 at 17:39 +0100, Luca Corti wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> is the LDA linked against the Cyrus SIEVE library or against the fork at
> libsieve.sourceforge.net ? It seems Cyrus SIEVE from src/libsieve/README
> in the lda sources.
> 
> libsieve seems to be better suited for inclusion in non-cyrus software
> and should be completely independent from libcyrus. The README for cyrus
> version of libsieve also states that:
> 
> "It should compile without libcyrus, but then it does not implement the
> "address" test."

Well, the reason I chose not to use libsieve was this:

http://dovecot.org/list/dovecot/2004-December/005776.html

Also it looks like the libsieve has been pretty dead for a long time.
Using Cyrus's sieve library at least some chance of being updated with
new features and such.

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