sieve (1) Linux Manual Page

NAME

sieve – a mail filtering tool.

SYNOPSIS

sieve [,OPTION/…] ,SCRIPT/

DESCRIPTION

GNU sieve — a mail filtering tool.

-c, –[no-]compile-only

compile script and exit

-D, –dump

compile script, dump disassembled sieve code to terminal and exit

-d, –debug[=,FLAGS/]

debug flags (defaults to "TPt")

-E, –[no-]expression

treat SCRIPT as Sieve program text

-e, –email=,ADDRESS/

override user email address

–environment=,NAME=VALUE/

set sieve environment value

-f, –mbox-url=,MBOX/

mailbox to sieve (defaults to user’s mail spool)

-k, –[no-]keep-going

keep on going if execution fails on a message

–line-info=,BOOL/

print source location along with action logs (default)

-n, –[no-]dry-run, –no-actions

do not execute any actions, just print what would be done

–no-program-name

do not prefix diagnostic messages with the program name

-t, –ticket=,TICKET/

ticket file for user authentication

-v, –[no-]verbose

log all actions

–variable=,NAME=VALUE/

set sieve variable

Global debugging settings

–debug-level=,LEVEL/

set Mailutils debugging level

–[no-]debug-line-info show source info with debugging messages

–log-facility=,FACILITY/

output logs to syslog FACILITY

-M, –mailer=,MAILER/

use specified URL as the default mailer

Sieve options

–clear-include-path

clear Sieve include path

–clear-library-path, –clearpath

clear Sieve library path

-I, –includedir=,DIR/

append DIR to the list of directories searched for include files

-L, –libdir=,DIR/

append DIR to the list of directories searched for library files

–libdir-prefix=,DIR/

add DIR to the beginning of the list of directories searched for library files

Configuration handling

–config-file=,FILE/

load this configuration file; implies –no-config

–config-lint

check configuration file syntax and exit

–config-verbose

verbosely log parsing of the configuration files

–no-config

do not load site and user configuration files

–no-site-config

do not load site-wide configuration file

–no-user-config

do not load user configuration file

–set=,PARAM=VALUE/

set configuration parameter

Informational options

–config-help

show configuration file summary

–show-config-options

show compilation options

-?, –help

give this help list

–usage

give a short usage message

-V, –version

print program version

Mandatory or optional arguments to long options are also mandatory or optional for any corresponding short options.

Sieve-specific debug levels:

trace1 – print parse tree before optimization trace2 – print parse tree after optimization trace3 – print parser traces trace4 – print tests and actions being executed trace9 – print each Sieve instruction being executed

Compatibility debug flags: g – main parser traces T – mailutils traces (same as –debug-level=,sieve/.trace0-trace1) P – network protocols (same as –debug-level=,sieve/.=prot) t – sieve trace (same as –debug-level=,sieve/.=trace4) i – sieve instructions trace (same as –debug-level=,sieve/.=trace9)

REPORTING BUGS

Report bugs to <bug-mailutils [at] gnu.org>.
GNU Mailutils home page: <http://mailutils.org>
General help using GNU software: <http://www.gnu.org/gethelp/>

COPYRIGHT

Copyright © 2007-2019 Free Software Foundation, inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.

SEE ALSO

The complete GNU mailutils documentation is maintained as a Texinfo manual. If the mailutils-doc package is installed, the command

info mailutils

should give you access to the complete manual.
You can also find this manual online in the GNU mailutils webpage:
https://www.gnu.org/software/mailutils/manual/index.html.
Please note this manpage was automatically generated by the Debian mailutils packagers. Do not file bugs for its content to the GNU Mailutils upstream authors.

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