editing sieve scripts via command line

[Vladislav Kurz]

On Monday 07 of September 2015 Sunny <ssn at ebi.ac.uk> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I would like to implement a script that sysadmin's can run to edit a
> users sieve script i.e. set out office or forward mail.
> If the sieve script gets edited via command line (i.e. using vi) the
> changes are not seen in GUI and the changes doesn't take effect so I'm
> wondering if there is some other process that needs to run to inform
> cyrus the sieve script has been updated and to reload?

You need to compile the sieve script to a bytecode (*.bc):

Syntax: /usr/lib/cyrus/bin/sievec [-C <altconfig>] <filename> <outputfile>

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regards
        Vladislav Kurz