Changes

0.8.1 (2025-05-29)

general:

  • Add support for Python 3.13.

  • Update and clean up setup and build files.

0.8 (2024-03-18)

Author: Hartmut Goebel. Thanks to Thomas Erbesdobler, Дилян Палаузов and Andrew Imeson.

managesieve:

  • Add support for the UNAUTHENTICATE command.

  • Add a socket timeout parameter.

  • Add support for IPv6.

  • Allow disabling certificate verification.

  • Follow the ‘Logging for a Library’ guideline.

  • BREAKING: Rearrange DEBUG logging levels to be more reasonable. See Logging in managesieve for details.

sieveshell:

  • Add option ‘–no-tls-verify’.

  • Improve error message if TLS certificate verification fails.

  • Keep line-endings on file IO.

  • Remove temporary file on successful edit, too.

  • Fix: Pass to sieve.login() the Authorization ID

general:

  • Add support for Python 3.12.

  • Improve testing, add a tox.ini file and add CI/CD.

  • Fix SPDX license identifier.

  • Fix several typos.

  • Lint all the code.

  • Remove unused code.

0.7.1 (2021-03-11)

Author: Hartmut Goebel, Thanks to Wouter Bolsterlee.

managesieve:

  • Actually raise debug-only exceptions instead of just returning them.

  • Fix invalid string-escape in docstring.

  • Some minor clean-up.

sieveshell:

  • Some minor clean-up.

0.7 (2021-03-05)

Author: Hartmut Goebel

sieveshell:

  • For get and put expand ~ and ~user constructions in filename . For put, if script-name is not given, the file’s basename is used.

managesieve:

  • Fix error when constructing debug error message.

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>