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NAME
sieve - a mail filtering tool.
SYNOPSIS
sieve [OPTION...] SCRIPT
DESCRIPTION
GNU sieve -- a mail filtering tool.
-c, --compile-only
compile script and exit
-d, --debug[=FLAGS]
debug flags (defaults to "TPt")
-D, --dump
compile script, dump disassembled sieve code to terminal and exit
-e, --email=ADDRESS
override user email address
-E, --expression
treat SCRIPT as Sieve program text
-f, --mbox-url=MBOX
mailbox to sieve (defaults to user's mail spool)
-k, --keep-going
keep on going if execution fails on a message
--line-info[=BOOL]
print source location along with action logs (default)
-n, --no-actions, --dry-run
do not execute any actions, just print what would be done
--no-program-name
do not prefix diagnostic messages with the program name
-t, --ticket=TICKET
ticket file for user authentication
-v, --verbose
log all actions
Sieve options
--clear-include-path
clear Sieve include path
--clear-library-path, --clearpath
clear Sieve library path
-I, --includedir=DIR
append DIR to the list of directories searched for include files
--libdir-prefix=DIR
add DIR to the beginning of the list of directories searched for library files
-L, --libdir=DIR
append DIR to the list of directories searched for library files
Common options
--config-file=FILE, --rcfile=FILE
load this configuration file
--config-help
show configuration file summary
--config-lint, --rcfile-lint
check configuration file syntax and exit
--config-verbose, --rcfile-verbose
verbosely log parsing of the configuration files
--no-site-config, --no-site-rcfile
do not load site configuration file
--no-user-config, --no-user-rcfile
do not load user configuration file
--set=PARAM=VALUE
set configuration parameter
--show-config-options
show compilation options
Global debugging settings
--debug-level=LEVEL
set Mailutils debugging level
--debug-line-info
show source info with debugging messages
--log-facility=FACILITY
output logs to syslog FACILITY
-M, --mailer=MAILER
use specified URL as the default mailer
-?, --help
give this help list
--usage
give a short usage message
-V, --version
print program version
Mandatory or optional arguments to long options are also mandatory or optional for any corresponding short options.
Debug flags:
g - main parser traces T - mailutils traces (same as --debug-level=sieve.trace0-trace1) P - network protocols (same as
--debug-level=sieve.=prot) t - sieve trace (MU_SIEVE_DEBUG_TRACE) i - sieve instructions trace (MU_SIEVE_DEBUG_INSTR)
REPORTING BUGS
Report bugs to <bug-mailutils@gnu.org>.
COPYRIGHT
Copyright (C) 2010 Free Software Foundation, inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
SEE ALSO
The complete GNU mailutils documentation is maintained as a Texinfo manual. If the mailutils-doc package is installed, the command
info mailutils
should give you access to the complete manual.
You can also find this manual online in the GNU mailutils webpage:
http://www.gnu.org/software/mailutils/manual/index.html.
Please note this manpage was automatically generated by the Debian mailutils packagers. Do not file bugs for its content to the GNU Mailu-
tils upstream authors.
FSF
June 2012 SIEVE(1)