On Dec 9, 2009, at 3:35 PM, David Brown wrote:
RFC 5228 seems to obsolete RFC 3028. Okay, I think I found the project here: http://sieve.info/
Hi Dave, thanks for the update and link.
The most python-y thing I could find is on their servers page; they list pysieved (Python Managesieve Server) but the link 404s. Looks like the programmer's site is still running, though... looks like you could get the files here: http://woozle.org/~neale/gitweb.cgi?p=pysieved;a=tree This doesn't appear to be an implementation of the sieve *language*, though... it's a script management tool.
Would it be necessary to implement the sieve language in Python or would it be possible to just use one of the existing C libraries? (libSieve is under LGPL)
I think either would be fine. If there were a pure-Python implementation of the language, we could possibly consider enabling it by default. With a Python extension module talking to libSieve, we might want to make it optional. But it's probably way too early to make that decision.
Mostly I'm trying to see if anybody would be interested in doing a little exploration hacking along these lines. If so, I will of course help you get started; ideally, you'd hack together a Bazaar branch that pulled in the appropriate libraries and did Something Cool with them just as a proof-of-concept.
-Barry