SIEVEC(1)

NAME
sievec - Pigeonhole's Sieve script compiler

SYNOPSIS

sievec [options] script-file [out-file]

DESCRIPTION

The sievec command is part of Pigeonhole (pigeonhole(7)), which adds Sieve (RFC 5228) and ManageSieve (RFC 5804) support to Dovecot (dovecot(1)).

Using the sievec command, Sieve scripts can be compiled into a binary representation. The resulting binary can be used directly to process e-mail messages during the delivery process. The delivery of mail messages and - by means of the LDA Sieve plugin - also the execution of Sieve scripts is performed by Dovecot's local delivery agent (LDA) called dovecot-lda(1).

Usually, it is not necessary to compile the Sieve script manually using sievec, because dovecot-lda(1) will do this automatically if the binary is missing. However, in some cases dovecot-lda(1) does not have permission to write the compiled binary to disk, forcing it to recompile the script every time it is executed. Using the sievec tool, this can be performed manually by an authorized user to increase performance.

The Pigeonhole Sieve implementation recognizes files with a .sieve extension as Sieve scripts and corresponding files with a .svbin extension as the associated compiled binary. This means for example that Dovecot's LDA process will first look for a binary file "dovecot.svbin" when it needs to execute "dovecot.sieve". It will compile a new binary when it is missing or outdated.

The sievec command is also useful to verify Sieve scripts before using. Additionally, with the -d option it can output a textual (and thus human-readable) dump of the generated Sieve code to the specified file. The output is then identical to what the sieve-dump(1) command produces for a stored binary file. This output is mainly useful to find bugs in the compiler that yield corrupt binaries.

OPTIONS

-c config-file

        Alternative Dovecot configuration file path.

-d

        Don't write the binary to out-file, but write a textual dump of the binary instead. In this context, the out-file value '-' has special meaning: it causes the textual dump to be written to stdout. The out-file argument may also be omitted, which has the same effect as '-'. The output is identical to what the sieve-dump(1) command produces for a compiled Sieve binary file. Note that this option is not allowed when the out-file argument is a directory.

-D

        Enable Sieve debugging.

-o setting=value

        Overrides the configuration setting from /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf and from the userdb with the given value. In order to override multiple settings, the -o option may be specified multiple times.

-u user/mask

        Run the command only for the given user. It's also possible to use '*' and '?' wildcards (e.g. -u *@example.org).

-x auth_info

        auth_info specifies additional conditions for the user command. The auth_info option string has to be given as name = value pair. For multiple conditions the -x option could be supplied multiple times.

        Possible names for the auth_info are:

        service

            The service for which the userdb lookup should be tested. The value may be the name of a service, commonly used with Dovecot. For example: imap, pop3 or smtp.

session

    Session identifier.

lip

    The local IP address (server) for the test.

rip

    The remote IP address (client) for the test.

lport

    The local port, e.g. 143

rport

    The remote port, e.g. 24567

real_lip

    The local IP to which the client connected on this host.

real_rip

    The remote IP where client connected from to this host.

real_lport

    The local port to which client connected to to this host.

real_rport

    The remote port from where the client connected from to this host.

forward_<field>

    Field to forward as %{forward:field} to auth process.

ARGUMENTS

script-file

        Specifies the script to be compiled. If the script-file argument is a directory, all files in that directory with a .sieve extension are compiled into a corresponding .svbin binary file. The compilation is not halted upon errors; it attempts to compile as many scripts in the directory as possible. Note that the -d option and the out-file argument are not allowed when the script-file argument is a directory.

out-file

        Specifies where the (binary) output is to be written. This argument is optional. If this argument is omitted, a binary compiled from <scriptname>.sieve is saved as <scriptname>.svbin. If this argument is omitted and -b is specified, the binary dump is output to stdout.

EXIT STATUS

sievec will exit with one of the following values:

0

        Compile was successful. (EX_OK, EXIT_SUCCESS)

1

        Operation failed. This is returned for almost all failures. (EXIT_FAILURE)

64

        Invalid parameter given. (EX_USAGE)

67

        User does not exist.

68

        Input file, address or other resource does not exist.

73

        Cannot create output file.

77

        Permission error.

78

        Configuration error.

127

        Unknown error.

FILES

/etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf

        Dovecot's main configuration file.

/etc/dovecot/conf.d/90-sieve.conf

        Sieve interpreter settings (included from Dovecot's main

        configuration file)

REPORTING BUGS

Report bugs, including doveconf -n output, to the Dovecot Mailing List ⟨dovecot@dovecot.org⟩. Information about reporting bugs is available at: ⟨https://dovecot.org/bugreport.html⟩

SEE ALSO

dovecot(1), dovecot-lda(1), sieve-dump(1), sieve-filter(1), sieve-test(1), pigeonhole(7)