How to activate sieve script for users?

[Craig White]

On Thu, 2006-03-09 at 12:57 -0500, Joseph Brennan wrote:
> > you dont need to known user passwords to set sieve scripts.
> 
> 
> The more interesting problem is how you will then maintain the
> scripts.  Most users do not have the technical background to
> hand-edit sieve scripts.  Instead they use a GUI to do this.
> 
> But I'll grant that someone who could write .procmailrc recipes
> should be able to handle sieve.
> 
> The GUI clients are write-only.  That is, they can translate
> their own ruleset into sieve script, but they cannot translate
> back from sieve script.  So you use the GUI, it stores its
> ruleset, and puts a sieve version to the server.  When you
> want to update, the GUI reads its ruleset to show you what
> you have, and if you change something, it again puts a sieve
> version to the server.
> 
> What we're doing here is implementing the web-based Ingo
> interface, and disallowing any other.  This gets us at least
> the portability that the Ingo page can be accessed from anywhere,
> so that a user can update sieve rules from anywhere.  (Actually
> the user is updating Ingo rulesets that are put to the server
> as sieve rules.)  The down side is that some things you can
> really do with sieve itself are not available.
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as Chuck would say...patches are welcome

all in all, Ingo/Sieve is a pretty dynamite combination for end users to
actually be able to maintain their sieve scripts.

Craig