From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eric Abrahamsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Two problems with sieve-manage Date: Thu, 13 Jun 2019 19:40:48 -0700 Message-ID: <87o930ga8f.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> References: <23807.50335.993117.846362@alice.local> <87o9312jw0.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> <23811.1714.61640.418431@alice.local> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: blaine.gmane.org; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:195.159.176.226"; logging-data="177618"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: George Hartzell Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jun 14 04:42:38 2019 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1hbcAn-000k3h-7c for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 14 Jun 2019 04:42:37 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:46798 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.86_2) (envelope-from ) id 1hbcAm-0003cJ-4Q for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 13 Jun 2019 22:42:36 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:35671) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.86_2) (envelope-from ) id 1hbc9v-0003bY-IX for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 13 Jun 2019 22:41:45 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hbc9p-0000LD-Tt for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 13 Jun 2019 22:41:39 -0400 Original-Received: from ericabrahamsen.net ([52.70.2.18]:35884 helo=mail.ericabrahamsen.net) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hbc9n-0008Em-T0 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 13 Jun 2019 22:41:37 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost (75-172-100-224.tukw.qwest.net [75.172.100.224]) (Authenticated sender: eric@ericabrahamsen.net) by mail.ericabrahamsen.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 2B9EAFA648; Fri, 14 Jun 2019 02:40:50 +0000 (UTC) In-Reply-To: <23811.1714.61640.418431@alice.local> (George Hartzell's message of "Thu, 13 Jun 2019 19:30:10 -0700") X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 52.70.2.18 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:120941 Archived-At: George Hartzell writes: > Eric Abrahamsen writes: > > George Hartzell 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 login port sieve 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...