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-$Cambridge: exim/doc/doc-txt/README.SIEVE,v 1.1 2004/10/07 15:04:35 ph10 Exp $
+$Cambridge: exim/doc/doc-txt/README.SIEVE,v 1.3 2005/03/29 15:21:57 ph10 Exp $
 
               Notes on the Sieve implementation for Exim
 
@@ -114,13 +114,14 @@ 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.
 
 
-Strings Containing Header Names
+Strings Containing Header Names Or Envelope Elements
 
 RFC 3028 does not specify what happens if a string denoting a header
-field does not contain a valid header name, e.g. it contains a colon.
+field or envelope element does not contain a valid name, e.g. it
+contains a colon for a header or it is not "from" or "to" for envelopes.
 This implementation generates an error instead of ignoring the header
-field in order to ease script debugging, which fits in the common
-picture of Sieve.
+field in order to ease script debugging, which fits in the common picture
+of Sieve.
 
 
 Header Test With Invalid MIME Encoding In Header
@@ -363,12 +364,6 @@ is not required by the vacation draft, which does not specify how
 the UTF-8 reason is processed to compose the resulting message.
 
 
-Envelope Sender
-
-The vacation draft does not specify the envelope sender.  This
-implementation uses the empty envelope sender to prevent mail loops.
-
-
 Default Subject
 
 The draft specifies that the default message subject is "Re: "
@@ -388,25 +383,10 @@ the current draft concerning automatic mail responses.
 
 Rate Limiting Responses
 
-The draft says:
-
-     Vacation responses are not just per address, but are per address
-     per vacation command.
-
-This is badly worded, because commands are not enumerated.  It meant
-to say:
-
-     Vacation responses are not just per address, but are per address
-     per reason string and per specified subject and ":mime" option.
-
-Existing implementations work that way and it makes more sense, too.
-Including the ":mime" option is mostly for correctness, as the reason
-strings with and without this option are rarely equal.
-
-This implementation hashes the reason, specified subject and ":mime"
-option and uses the hex string representation as filename within the
-"sieve_vacation_directory" to store the recipient addresses for this
-vacation parameter set.
+This implementation hashes the reason, specified subject, ":mime"
+option and ":addresses" option and uses the hex string representation
+as filename within the "sieve_vacation_directory" to store the recipient
+addresses for this vacation parameter set.
 
 The draft specifies that sites may define a minimum ":days" value than 1.
 This implementation uses 1.  The maximum value MUST greater than 7,