[Mailman-Developers] Anybody looking for an insane project?

[Patrick Ben Koetter]

* Barry Warsaw <barry at python.org>:
> On Dec 9, 2009, at 3:35 PM, David Brown wrote:
> 
> > RFC 5228 seems to obsolete RFC 3028. Okay, I think I found the project here:
> > http://sieve.info/
> 
> Hi Dave, thanks for the update and link.
> 
> > The most python-y thing I could find is on their servers page; they list
> > pysieved (Python Managesieve Server) but the link 404s. Looks like the
> > programmer's site is still running, though... looks like you could get the
> > files here: http://woozle.org/~neale/gitweb.cgi?p=pysieved;a=tree  This
> > doesn't appear to be an implementation of the sieve *language*, though...
> > it's a script management tool. 
> > 
> > Would it be necessary to implement the sieve language in Python or would it
> > be possible to just use one of the existing C libraries? (libSieve is under
> > LGPL)
> 
> I think either would be fine.  If there were a pure-Python implementation of
> the language, we could possibly consider enabling it by default.  With a
> Python extension module talking to libSieve, we might want to make it
> optional.  But it's probably way too early to make that decision.

Are we talking Cyrus' libSieve? If we are, I might throw in that the Dovecot
project used the library for a while and turned to a complete new selfmade
implementation. I don't recall the reasons, but I think it would be worth
asking Timo, the man behind Dovecot.

p at rick


> Mostly I'm trying to see if anybody would be interested in doing a little
> exploration hacking along these lines.  If so, I will of course help you get
> started; ideally, you'd hack together a Bazaar branch that pulled in the
> appropriate libraries and did Something Cool with them just as a
> proof-of-concept.
> 
> -Barry
> 
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