ANN: managesieve 0.2

[Hartmut Goebel]

Announcing:

                           managesieve
                          =============
                           Version 0.2


A MANGAGESIEVE client library for remotely managing Sieve scripts,
including an interactive 'sieveshell'.

This module allows accessing a Sieve-Server for managing Sieve scripts
there. For more information about the MANAGESIEVE protocol see draft
http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-martin-managesieve-04.txt .


What is MANAGESIEVE?
--------------------

Sieve scripts allow users to filter incoming email. Message stores are
commonly sealed servers so users cannot log into them, yet users must
be able to update their scripts on them. This module implements a
protocol "managesieve" for securely managing Sieve scripts on a remote
server. This protocol allows a user to have multiple scripts, and also
alerts a user to syntactically flawed scripts.

This an interim measure as it is hoped that eventually Sieve scripts
will be stored on ACAP.


Availablity
-----------

'managesieve' is available for download at
http://www.crazy-compilers.com/py-lib/#managesieve

Requirements
------------

Requires Python >= 2.0


Not yet implemented
-------------------

- Only athentication method LOGIN is currently supported.
- STARTTLS is not yet implemented.
- sieve-names are only quoted dump (put into quotes, but no escapes yet).


Copyright/License
-----------------

(C) Copyright 2003 by Hartmut Goebel <h.goebel@crazy-compilers.com>

License: Python Software Foundation License
          http://www.opensource.org/licenses/PythonSoftFoundation.html

License for 'sieveshell' and test suite: GPL
         http://www.opensource.org/licenses/gpl-license.php

Credits
-------

Based on Sieve.py from Ulrich Eck <ueck@net-labs.de> which is part of
of 'ImapClient' (see http://www.zope.org/Members/jack-e/ImapClient), a
Zope product.

Some ideas taken from imaplib written by Piers Lauder
<piers@cs.su.oz.au> et al.