Re: Sieve gets in infinite loop

[Reiner Steib <reinersteib+gmane@imap.cc>]

On Thu, Nov 19 2009, Jason Rumney wrote:

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> Attempting to upload my sieve script to a Dovecot server results in an
> infinite loop in sieve-manage-network-open.
>
> The cause is the test for the OK line in sieve-manage-parse-capability-1:
>
>   (when (re-search-forward (concat "^OK" sieve-manage-server-eol) nil t)
>     (setq sieve-manage-state 'nonauth)))
>
> My server sends the following non-matching line:
>
>    OK "Dovecot ready."

I know next to nothing about sieve, but AFAICS, you (and your server)
are right.  Feel free to adjust sieve-manage-parse-capability-1 as
needed.

,----[ http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-sieve-managesieve-09 ]
| 1.3.  Syntax
| 
|    [...]
| 
|    Each command consists of an atom (the command name) followed by zero
|    or more strings and numbers terminated by CRLF.
| 
|    All client queries are replied to with either an OK, NO, or BYE
|    response.  Each response may be followed by a response code (see
|    Section 1.4) and by a string consisting of human readable text in the
|    local language (as returned by the LANGUAGE capability, see
|    Section 1.8), encoded in [UTF-8].  The contents of the string SHOULD
|    be shown to the user and implementations MUST NOT attempt to parse
|    the message for meaning.
| 
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Bye, Reiner.
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