Florian Weimer's patch to remove the unwanted and unused support for

[exim.git] / doc / doc-txt / README.SIEVE

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-$Cambridge: exim/doc/doc-txt/README.SIEVE,v 1.7 2005/08/30 10:55:52 ph10 Exp $
+$Cambridge: exim/doc/doc-txt/README.SIEVE,v 1.10 2006/04/25 10:44:57 ph10 Exp $
 
               Notes on the Sieve implementation for Exim
 
@@ -20,11 +20,12 @@ then there is no way around it.
 
 Exim Implementation
 
-The Exim Sieve implementation offers the core as defined by draft
-3028bis-4 (next version of RFC 3028 that fixes specification mistakes),
-the "envelope" (3028bis), the "fileinto" (3028bis), the "copy" (RFC 3894)
-and the "vacation" (draft-ietf-sieve-vacation-02.txt) extension, the
-"i;ascii-numeric" comparator (RFC 2244).
+The Exim Sieve implementation offers the core as defined by
+draft-ietf-sieve-3028bis-05.txt (next version of RFC 3028 that fixes
+specification mistakes), the "envelope" test (3028bis), the "fileinto"
+action (3028bis), the "copy" action (RFC 3894), the "vacation" action
+(draft-ietf-sieve-vacation-05.txt) and the "i;ascii-numeric" comparator
+extension (RFC 2244).
 
 The Sieve filter is integrated in Exim and works very similar to the
 Exim filter: Sieve scripts are recognized by the first line containing
@@ -120,6 +121,9 @@ Sieve script errors currently cause that messages are silently filed into
 This may be implemented in future by adding a header line to mails that
 are filed into "inbox" due to an error in the filter.
 
+The automatic replies generated by "vacation" do not contain an updated
+"references" header field.
+
 
 Semantics Of Keep
 
@@ -129,7 +133,7 @@ implicit keep flag; there is no command to set it once it has
 been reset.
 
 
-Semantics of Fileinto
+Semantics Of Fileinto
 
 RFC 3028 does not specify if "fileinto" tries to create a mail folder,
 in case it does not exist.  This implementation allows to configure
@@ -138,7 +142,35 @@ that aspect using the appendfile transport options "create_directory",
 the Exim specification for details.
 
 
-Sieve Syntax and Semantics
+Allof And Anyof Test
+
+RFC 3028 does not specify if these tests use shortcut/lazy evaluation.
+Exim uses shortcut evaluation.
+
+
+Action Reordering
+
+RFC 3028 does not specify if actions may be executed out of order.
+Exim may execute them out of order, e.g. messages may be filed to
+folders or forwarded in a different order than specified, because
+those actions only setup delivery, but do not execute it themselves.
+
+
+Wildcard Matching
+
+RFC 3028 is not exactly clear if comparators act on unicode characters
+or on octets containing their UTF-8 representation.  As it turns out,
+many implementations go the second way.  This does not make a difference
+but for wildcard matching and octet-wise comparison.  Working on unicode
+means a dot matches a character.  Working on UTF-8 means the dot matches
+a single octet of a multi-octet sequence.  For octet-wise comparisons,
+working on UTF-8 means arbitrary byte sequences in headers can not be
+matches, as they are rarely correct UTF-8 sequences and can thus not be
+expressed as string literal.  This implementation works on unicode, but
+this may be changed in case RFC3028bis specifies this issue safe and sound.
+
+
+Sieve Syntax And Semantics
 
 RFC 3028 confuses syntax and semantics sometimes.  It uses a generic
 grammar as syntax for commands and tests and performs many checks during