How can I use sieveshell in batch mode

[Rob Tanner]

I am moving a couple thousand users to cyrus-imap and I need to move 324
.forward files into sieve.  I wrote a quick and dirty perl program to convert
each forward file into a sieve script that can be understood by smartsieve,
so I'm ready to go as far as the content of the 324 sieve scripts are
concerned.

My problem is, how do I use sieveshell in batch mode.  While I can certainly
upload scripts one at a time, there appears to be no way to feed sieveshell
the authentication password on the command line and thus no way to repeatedly
invoke sieveshell from a script (unless I'm missing something).  I tried
piping the password in via STDIN.  It appears to work but also generates
"stty: standard input: Invalid argument" errors, so I'm not so sure that it's
a good idea.  

My other thought was to write my own, using the Cyrus::SIEVE::managesieve
package, but there's no helpful documentation that I could find.

Has anyone resolved this problem?

Thanks,
Rob

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Rob Tanner
UNIX Services Manager
Linfield College, McMinnville OR

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