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NAME
       sievec - Pigeonhole's Sieve script compiler
SYNOPSIS
       sievec [options] script-file [out-file]
DESCRIPTION
       The  sievec  command is part of the Pigeonhole Project (pigeonhole(7)),
       which adds Sieve (RFC 5228) support to the Dovecot secure IMAP and POP3
       server (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 mes-
       sages 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 will do this
       automatically if the binary is missing. However, in  some  cases  dove-
       cot-lda  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 exten-
       sion 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       when it is missing or outdated.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 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/dove-
              cot.conf and from the userdb with the given value.  In order  to
              override  multiple settings, the -o option may be specified mul-
              tiple times.
       -u user
              Run the Sieve script for the given user. When omitted, the  com-
              mand  will  be  executed  with  the environment of the currently
              logged in user.
       -x extensions
              Set the available extensions. The parameter is a space-separated
              list of the active extensions. By prepending the extension iden-
              tifiers with + or -, extensions can be included or excluded rel-
              ative  to  the configured set of active extensions. If no exten-
              sions have a + or -  prefix,  only  those  extensions  that  are
              explicitly  listed  will  be  enabled.  Unknown  extensions  are
              ignored and a warning is produced.
              For example -x "+imapflags -enotify" will enable the  deprecated
              imapflags  extension and disable the enotify extension. The rest
              of the active extensions depends  on  the  sieve_extensions  and
              sieve_global_extensions   settings.   By   default,  i.e.   when
              sieve_extensions and  sieve_global_extensions  remain  unconfig-
              ured,  all supported extensions are available, except for depre-
              cated extensions or those that are still under development.

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 exten-
              sion 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 argu-
              ment  is  optional.   If this argument is omitted, a binary com-
              piled 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)
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 config-
              uration file)
REPORTING BUGS
       Report bugs, including doveconf -n output, to the Dovecot Mailing  List
       <dovecot AT dovecot.org>.   Information  about reporting bugs is available
       at: http://dovecot.org/bugreport.html
SEE ALSO
       dovecot(1),     dovecot-lda(1),     sieve-dump(1),     sieve-filter(1),
       sieve-test(1), pigeonhole(7)

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