Download & Installation¶

Instructions for Windows Users¶

managesieve requires Python. If you don’t have Python installed already, download and install Python 3.6 from https://python.org/download/3.6/

During installation, make sure to check “Include into PATH”.
If you already have Python installed, please check that your Python directory (normally C:Python36 for python 3.6) and the Python Scripts directory (normally :file`C:Python36Scripts`) are in the system path. If not, just add them in My Computer ‣ Properties ‣ Advanced ‣ Environment Variables to the Path system variable.
Install managesieve by running
```
pip install managesieve
```
Then run the console command managesieve --help to get detailed help.

If the command pip is unknown to you system, please refer to the pip homepage for help.

Instructions for GNU/Linux and other Operating Systems¶

Most current GNU/Linux distributions provide packages for managesieve. Simply search your distribution’s software catalog.

Also many vendors provide Python, and some even provide managesieve. Please check your vendor’s software repository.

If your distribution or vendor does not provide a current version of managesieve please read on.

If your vendor does not provide python please download Python 3.6 from https://www.python.org/download/ and follow the installation instructions there.

If you distribution or vendor missed providing pip, alongside python, please check your vendor’s or distribution’s software repository for a package called pip or python-pip. If this is not provided, please refer to the pip homepage for help.

Then continue with Installing managesieve using pip below.

Installing managesieve using pip¶

After installing Python (and optionally PyPDF2), just run:

sudo pip install managesieve

to install managesieve for all users. For installing managesieve for yourself only, run:

pip install --user managesieve

If your system does not have network access download managesieve from https://pypi.org/project/managesieve/, and run

sudo pip install managesieve-*.tar.gz

respective

pip install --user managesieve-*.tar.gz