Changes

0.6 (2018-06-27)

Author: Hartmut Goebel

  • Add support for Python 3. Minimum required Python version is now Python 2.7.
  • Homepage is now hosted at https://managesieve.readthedocs.io/
  • Documentation is extended and includes API documentation.
sieveshell:
  • Security fix: No longer leak environment variable SIEVE_PASSWORD when displaying usage help.
  • Per default enforce secure transport. Suggested by Jan Zerebecki.
  • Add possibility to use username/password from the .netrc file. The order is: command line options -> environment variables -> .netrc file -> ask user. Thanks to Grégoire Détrez.
managesieve:
  • Fail if TLS is requested, but server doesn’t support TLS. Suggested by Jan Zerebecki.
project:
  • Rework and enhance test-suite. Thanks to Matěj Cepl for nudging to proper pytest integration.
  • Lots if internal cleanup.

Version 0.5 (2013-03-24)

Author: Hartmut Goebel

sieveshell:
  • Changed default port for the MANAGESIEVE protocol to 4190 as proposed by RFC 5804. Thanks to Guido Berhoerster for submitting the patch.
  • Added option --port. Thanks to Damien Aumaitre for submitting the patch and to Guido Berhoerster for an enhancement.
  • Added option --verbose for controlling debug output in managesieve. May be given several times to increase verbosity.
managesieve:
  • Switched to Python standard logging system. This introduces a minor interface change: MANAGESIEVE.debug and global Debug are gone. See source for information about debugging log levels.

Version 0.4.2 (2010-01-06)

Author: Hartmut Goebel

managesieve:
  • Use ssl.wrap_socket() instead of deprecated socket.ssl(). Thanks to Guido Berhoerster for submitting the patch.

Version 0.4.1 (2009-10-08)

Author: Hartmut Goebel

managesieve:
  • fixed short read (thanks to paurkedal for submitting the patch)

Version 0.4 (2008-10-13)

Author: Hartmut Goebel

managesieve:
  • now work with Python 2.3 and later
  • added support for TLS (STARTTLS), special thanks to Gregory Boyce for fixing some corner cases here
  • added support for PLAIN authentication
  • use optparse if available instead of optik.
  • API change: login() no longer uses the LOGIN authentication mechanism, but has become a convenience function. It uses the best mechanism available for authenticating the user.
  • Bugfixes:
    • If a capability had no values (like ‘STARTTLS’), parsing capabilities failed. Fixed.
    • removed dependency on some imaplib’s private functions
    • fixed typo: self.supports_tls

Thanks to Tomas ‘Skitta’ Lindroos, Lorenzo Boccaccia, Alain Spineux, darkness and Gregory Boyce for sending patches.
sieveshell:
  • added support for different authentication mechanisms
  • added option –start-tls
  • more verbose output when server says “BYE” (prints out referrals etc.)
  • automatic cmd_quit() when server says “BYE”
  • several minor bugfixes and enhancements

Version 0.3

Author: Hartmut Goebel

managesieve:
  • MANAGESIEVE.authenticate() now only returns a OK/NO/BYE result like any command not asking data from the server
sieveshell:
  • added ‘edit’, which may create scripts, too. (posix only)
  • now prints out the server capabilities, thus the user knows what the server is capable of (and which Sieve-Commands may be used).
  • fixed some minor bugs

Version 0.2

Author: Hartmut Goebel <h.goebel@crazy-compilers.com>

  • renamed to ‘managesieve’
  • added sieveshell
  • major overhaul
  • added support for HAVESPACE, CAPABILITY
  • added unittest testsuite (covers most cases)

Version 0.1

Author: Ulrich Eck <ueck at net-labs.de>