command-line sieve client that supports TLS

[Andrew Morgan]

On Tue, 14 Nov 2006, Phil Pennock wrote:

> On 2006-11-14 at 06:23 +0100, Phil Pennock wrote:
>> I just wrote one.  I'm going to bed without figuring out what I'm doing
>> wrong with GSSAPI
>
> Fixed.  I made assumptions about the zero-data-to-send case.
> Managesieve draft was unhelpful, I'll find the appropriate forum for
> that, but ktrace was my friend in the end.
>
> This also fixes the lack of final server verification in case the auth
> mechanism supports that -- ie, DIGEST-MD5.  So the previously posted
> version should be replaced with this one as it's a security risk to not
> be able to verify the server; STARTTLS should have done that for us, but
> a man-in-the-middle attack could have dropped that.
>
> Other changes are that some junk has been stripped out, a bug-fix in an
> error condition, and the password prompt goes to stderr to allow stdout
> to be captured by a script.
>
> Oh, and version numbers come from a Subversion repository -- this isn't
> really the 63rd version ;^) since the first commit of this script was
> v62.
>
> If anyone is seriously considering using this, please let me know and
> I'll clean up the action stuff and let scripts be supplied, just as for
> sieveshell, instead of the simple one-shot action stuff here, which was
> provided for embedded control where expect-like interaction isn't used;
> I decided to write for a simple API.
>
>> It's attached, and also on my website in case it gets mangled somewhere
>> in the mail path between me and you.
>
>   <URL:http://people.spodhuis.org/~pdp/software/sieve_connect-v63>
>
> # 14117 octets long
> MD5(sieve_connect-v63) =d8b1eb0f7e763d7fc661393da60e23bd
> SHA1(sieve_connect-v63) =03cc48babe3f13ef829a09a5322a276a494533eb
> RIPEMD160(sieve_connect-v63) =dddbbb77594653051d2f20a1627e9096fa3cc3c7

It would be great if this could be included with the Cyrus distribution. 
In the meantime, perhaps you could post it to the Cyrus Wiki?

Thanks,
 	Andy