[Dovecot] I wrote a managesieve server for Dovecot

[Robert Schetterer]

Harley Peters schrieb:
> Robert Schetterer wrote:
>> Harley Peters schrieb:
>>> Neale Pickett wrote:
>>>> I have written a managesieve server from scratch in Python.  I did
>>>> just enough work to get it working with avelsieve (the squirrelmail
>>>> plugin), smartsieve, and KDE's sieve kioplugin.  It supports the
>>>> entire Internet draft.  Since I didn't have a working sieve server to
>>>> compare against, I'm not sure if it's 100% compatible with
>>>> timsieved. Client applications seem to work okay anyway.
>>>>
>>>> I wrote it in such a way as to decouple how authentication is carried
>>>> out and how sieve scripts are actually stored, so you could for
>>>> instance modify this to work with SASL and Exim.  Currently it only
>>>> has code for PAM and Dovecot's LDA, because I run Postfix :).  TLS
>>>> support is in the code but disabled because I had problems writing a
>>>> unit test for it.  All my connections are from localhost anyway.
>>>>
>>>> http://woozle.org/~neale/repos/pysieved if anyone is interested.
>>>>
>>>> I haven't looked closely at Stephan Bosch's managesieve server in C
>>>> but I do want to acknowledge that he has written a C managesieve
>>>> server that currently exists as a patch to the Dovecot source code.
>>>> People looking for a managesieve implementation in C are encouraged to
>>>> try his patch out: http://sinas.rename-it.nl/~sirius/
>>>>
>>>> Neale
>>>>
>>>
>>> Thanks for the managesieve server !
>>>
>>> I am running this via xinetd with a mysql database and smartsieve as the
>>> client.I tried using it as a daemon but it becomes unresponsive over
>>> time.
>>> I am running it as the same user that the dovecot lda runs as it store's
>>> the smartsieve script with 0600 permisions.
>>> Haven't run it to long yet but so far so good.
>>>
>>> Harley
>>>
>> Hi ask Neale directly,
>> try running it as deamon with -d -d -d
>>
>> like python pysieved.py -d -d -d
>> i havent tried mysql , i used saslauthd deamon,
>>
>>
> 
> I have hacked together a gentoo init start stop script for it to start
> up and run as daemon on boot up. I'm currently testing it but it is to
> early to tell whether it will work better than the way i was starting it
> from the command line.
> 
> Harley
> 
It would be nice to mail it, if it is ready,
i will do the same for suse if i get time to do it

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