Re: cyrus and sieve: how to setup?

[Erik Steffl <steffl@bigfoot.com>]

Andrea Vettorello wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 2001-11-15 at 19:42, Erik Steffl wrote:
> > Andrea Vettorello wrote:
> > >
> > > On Wed, 2001-11-14 at 13:37, Erik Steffl wrote:
> > > >   I have cyrus imap server working and I would like to use sieve to
> > > > filter email. I have several questions that I hope somebody will answer:
> > > >
> > > >   1) the only implementation of sieve in debian that I found is
> > > > undocumented progam called sieve in mailutils - is that the one to use?
> > > > if not, which one should I use?
> > >
> > > I'm using an unofficial cyrus package (1.6.24-2), and inside there are
> >
> >   where did you get it?
> 
> Last summer i was looking for a imap/pop server and from the description
> cyrus seemed what i was looking for (it was interesting the feature of
> the users insulated from the system). The debian version was very old,
> and with a serch with google i've found some cyrus unofficial package at
> http://www.boxedpenguin.com/

  thanks, I guess I'll try this one...

> 
> >
> >   btw why is it not official? IMO sieve support is quite a big deal...
> >
> 
> I said unofficial cause it's not from the official debian mirror =)

  yes, I was asking how come there is no official version (or in other
words, why is the official cyrus package so old). I understand that
packaging 2.x is quite a challenge but even 1.6 version would be much
better (because of sieve).

  anyway, thanks for the link,

	erik