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NAME

       sievec - Pigeonhole's Sieve script compiler

SYNOPSIS

       sievec [options] script-file [out-file]

DESCRIPTION

       The  sievec  command  is part of the Pigeonhole Project (pigeonhole(7)), which adds Sieve (RFC 5228) support to the Dovecot secure IMAP and
       POP3 server (dovecot(1)).

       Using the sievec command, Sieve scripts can be compiled into a binary representation. The resulting binary can be used directly to  process
       e-mail  messages  during the delivery process. The delivery of mail messages and - by means of the LDA Sieve plugin - also the execution of
       Sieve scripts is performed by Dovecot's local delivery agent (LDA) called dovecot-lda(1).  Usually, it is  not  necessary  to  compile  the
       Sieve  script  manually using sievec, because dovecot-lda will do this automatically if the binary is missing. However, in some cases dove-
       cot-lda does not have permission to write the compiled binary to disk, forcing it to recompile the script every time it is executed.  Using
       the sievec tool, this can be performed manually by an authorized user to increase performance.

       The  Pigeonhole Sieve implementation recognizes files with a .sieve extension as Sieve scripts and corresponding files with a .svbin exten-
       sion as the associated compiled binary. This means for example that Dovecot's LDA process will first look for a binary file "dovecot.svbin"
       when it needs to execute "dovecot.sieve". It will compile a new binary when it is missing or outdated.

       The sievec command is also useful to verify Sieve scripts before using.	Additionally, with the -d option it can output a textual (and thus
       human-readable) dump of the generated Sieve code to the specified file. The output is then identical to what the sieve-dump(1) command pro-
       duces for a stored binary file. This output is mainly useful to find bugs in the compiler that yield corrupt binaries.

OPTIONS

       -c config-file
	      Alternative Dovecot configuration file path.

       -d     Don't write the binary to out-file, but write a textual dump of the binary instead. In this context, the out-file value '-' has spe-
	      cial meaning: it causes the the textual dump to be written to stdout.  The out-file argument may also be omitted, which has the same
	      effect  as '-'.  The output is identical to what the sieve-dump(1) command produces for a compiled Sieve binary file. Note that this
	      option is not allowed when the out-file argument is a directory.

       -x extensions
	      Set the available extensions. The parameter is a space-separated list of the active extensions. By prepending the extension  identi-
	      fiers with + or -, extensions can be included or excluded relative to the configured set of active extensions. If no extensions have
	      a + or - prefix, only those extensions that are explicitly listed will be enabled. Unknown extensions are ignored and a  warning	is
	      produced.

	      For  example  -x "+imapflags -enotify" will enable the deprecated imapflags extension and disable the enotify extension. The rest of
	      the active extensions depends on the sieve_extensions and sieve_global_extensions settings. By default, i.e.  when  sieve_extensions
	      and  sieve_global_extensions  remain unconfigured, all supported extensions are available, except for deprecated extensions or those
	      that are still under development.

ARGUMENTS

       script-file
	      Specifies the script to be compiled. If the script-file argument is a directory, all files in that directory with a .sieve extension
	      are  compiled  into  a  corresponding  .svbin binary file. The compilation is not halted upon errors; it attempts to compile as many
	      scripts in the directory as possible. Note that the -d option and the out-file argument are not allowed when the	script-file  argu-
	      ment is a directory.

       out-file
	      Specifies  where	the  (binary)  output is to be written. This argument is optional.  If this argument is omitted, a binary compiled
	      from <scriptname>.sieve is saved as <scriptname>.svbin. If this argument is omitted and -b is specified, the binary dump	is  output
	      to stdout.

EXIT STATUS

       sievec will exit with one of the following values:

       0   Compile was successful. (EX_OK, EXIT_SUCCESS)

       1   Operation failed. This is returned for almost all failures.	(EXIT_FAILURE)

       64  Invalid parameter given. (EX_USAGE)

FILES

       /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf
	      Dovecot's main configuration file.

       /etc/dovecot/conf.d/90-sieve.conf
	      Sieve interpreter settings (included from Dovecot's main configuration file)

REPORTING BUGS

       Report  bugs,  including  doveconf  -n  output, to the Dovecot Mailing List <dovecot@dovecot.org>.  Information about reporting Dovecot and
       Pigeonhole bugs is available at: http://dovecot.org/bugreport.html

SEE ALSO

       dovecot(1), dovecot-lda(1), sieve-dump(1), sieve-filter(1), sieve-test(1), pigeonhole(7)

Pigeonhole for Dovecot v2.1					    2012-01-07								 SIEVEC(1)