The IESG has approved the following document: - 'A Protocol for Remotely Managing Sieve Scripts ' <draft-ietf-sieve-managesieve-09.txt> as a Proposed Standard This document is the product of the Sieve Mail Filtering Language Working Group. The IESG contact persons are Lisa Dusseault and Chris Newman. A URL of this Internet-Draft is: http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-sieve-managesieve-09.txt Technical Summary Sieve scripts allow users to filter incoming email. Message stores are commonly sealed servers so users cannot log into them, yet users must be able to update their scripts on them. This document describes a protocol "ManageSieve" for securely managing Sieve scripts on a remote server. This protocol allows a user to have multiple scripts, and also alerts a user to syntactically flawed scripts. Working Group Summary There was a discussion on the mailing list about use of synchronizing literals in the protocol. An earlier version incorrectly documented existing practice and at the same time was inconsistent with IMAP LITERAL+ extension. So there was a concern that some existing implementation might implement this incorrectly. However the author is not aware of any such implementation. More recently, there has been discussion of the overall command structure, mandatory-to-implement security mechanisms, and of some specific details in the sieve URL format. Consensus appears to have been reached on all of these issues. Document Quality There are multiple server and client implementations of the ManageSieve protocol. The following is an incomplete list of servers implementing ManageSieve: CMU, Dbmail, Dovecot, Isode, ArchiveOpteryx, pysieved (Python Managesieve Server), Citadel. The following clients are known to implement ManageSieve: Mulberry, Phil Pennock's sieve-connect, Polymer, Ruby/ManageSieve, Net-ManageSieve (perl), SIEVE plugin for Thunderbird, KMail, gsieve, Emacs-based ManageSieve implementation. Note that many if not most of these implementtations were written according to earlier versions of the specification and may require updates to be compliant with the current version. Personnel Ned Freed is the Document Shepherd. Lisa Dusseault reviewed this for the IESG. _______________________________________________ IETF-Announce@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf-announce
