Re: Two problems with sieve-manage

[Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net>]

George Hartzell <hartzell@alerce.com> writes:

> Eric Abrahamsen writes:
>  > George Hartzell <hartzell@alerce.com> writes:
>  > 
>  > > I've been trying to use sieve-manage in GNU Emacs 26.1 on a Mac with
>  > > dovecot-pigeonhole-0.5.6 on a FreeBSD 12 system.
>  > >
>  > > I've run into a few problems:
>  > 
>  > I would use report-emacs-bugs to report these properly. It's possible
>  > that I'll have time to look at this in the next week or so, but I don't
>  > have time right now, and having a bug report makes it more likely people
>  > will notice. I can't test at the moment since sieve-manage won't even
>  > log in to the two mail servers that I use :(
>  > 
>  > As to your last point, you might find it simpler to create a ~/.authinfo
>  > file containing a line like:
>  > 
>  > machine <server> login <user> port sieve password <password>
>  > 
>  > You can also pgp-encrypt that file and it will work transparently.
>
> Thanks.  I will do so.
>
> I'm not entirely sure that I'm using it properly though, so I thought
> I'd ask for "help" before I cried wol^H^H^Hbug!.
>
> Looking at the code, I can't see why it would ever (have ever) do
> anything differently, but....

I don't think anyone's given any love to the sieve functions for quite a
while, so it's safe to assume bugs. I do hope to have some time for this
in the next few weeks...