G'day.

My mail server places some particular demands on the format of Sieve scripts;
specifically, it likes to have a comment before each item to show as the
"name" of the filter rule in the web interface.

Actually trying to hack this into gnus-sieve was surprisingly difficult: the
generation process wraps the formatting of each command into the same process
that loops the overall map.

Attached is a patch that splits this out into two components: one function
that loops through newsrc and finds the groups, and another that is
responsible for generating the individual Sieve expression for a single group.

It also implements the comment-before-content used by my server, although that
is reasonably self-contained and optional; if y'all felt like taking the patch
without that I would be happy.[1]


I have papers for Gnus, and Emacs, on file, although I don't consider the
content original enough to warrant them: while it moves a whole bunch of
lines, it just moves them.  Anyway, whatever.  I hope y'all accept it. :)

Regards,
        Daniel

Footnotes: 
[1]  Specifically, I could advise the function to inject the comment
     appropriately without worrying about changes to the overall design later
     breaking my nasty hacks. :)

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