A Protocol for Remotely Managing Sieve Scripts
RFC 5804
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RFC 5804
Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) A. Melnikov, Ed.
Request for Comments: 5804 Isode Limited
Category: Standards Track T. Martin
ISSN: 2070-1721 BeThereBeSquare, Inc.
July 2010
A Protocol for Remotely Managing Sieve Scripts
Abstract
Sieve scripts allow users to filter incoming email. Message stores
are commonly sealed servers so users cannot log into them, yet users
must be able to update their scripts on them. This document
describes a protocol "ManageSieve" for securely managing Sieve
scripts on a remote server. This protocol allows a user to have
multiple scripts, and also alerts a user to syntactically flawed
scripts.
Status of This Memo
This is an Internet Standards Track document.
This document is a product of the Internet Engineering Task Force
(IETF). It represents the consensus of the IETF community. It has
received public review and has been approved for publication by the
Internet Engineering Steering Group (IESG). Further information on
Internet Standards is available in Section 2 of RFC 5741.
Information about the current status of this document, any errata,
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Table of Contents
1. Introduction ....................................................3
1.1. Commands and Responses .....................................3
1.2. Syntax .....................................................3
1.3. Response Codes .............................................3
1.4. Active Script ..............................................6
1.5. Quotas .....................................................6
1.6. Script Names ...............................................6
1.7. Capabilities ...............................................7
1.8. Transport ..................................................9
1.9. Conventions Used in This Document .........................10
2. Commands .......................................................10
2.1. AUTHENTICATE Command ......................................11
2.1.1. Use of SASL PLAIN Mechanism over TLS ...............16
2.2. STARTTLS Command ..........................................16
2.2.1. Server Identity Check ..............................17
2.3. LOGOUT Command ............................................20
2.4. CAPABILITY Command ........................................20
2.5. HAVESPACE Command .........................................20
2.6. PUTSCRIPT Command .........................................21
2.7. LISTSCRIPTS Command .......................................23
2.8. SETACTIVE Command .........................................24
2.9. GETSCRIPT Command .........................................25
2.10. DELETESCRIPT Command .....................................25
2.11. RENAMESCRIPT Command .....................................26
2.12. CHECKSCRIPT Command ......................................27
2.13. NOOP Command .............................................28
2.14. Recommended Extensions ...................................28
2.14.1. UNAUTHENTICATE Command ............................28
3. Sieve URL Scheme ...............................................29
4. Formal Syntax ..................................................31
5. Security Considerations ........................................37
6. IANA Considerations ............................................38
6.1. ManageSieve Capability Registration Template ..............39
6.2. Registration of Initial ManageSieve Capabilities ..........39
6.3. ManageSieve Response Code Registration Template ...........41
6.4. Registration of Initial ManageSieve Response Codes ........41
7. Internationalization Considerations ............................46
8. Acknowledgements ...............................................46
9. References .....................................................47
9.1. Normative References ......................................47
9.2. Informative References ....................................48
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1. Introduction
1.1. Commands and Responses
A ManageSieve connection consists of the establishment of a client/
server network connection, an initial greeting from the server, and
client/server interactions. These client/server interactions consist
of a client command, server data, and a server completion result
response.
All interactions transmitted by client and server are in the form of
lines, that is, strings that end with a CRLF. The protocol receiver
of a ManageSieve client or server is either reading a line or reading
a sequence of octets with a known count followed by a line.
1.2. Syntax
ManageSieve is a line-oriented protocol much like [IMAP] or [ACAP],
which runs over TCP. There are three data types: atoms, numbers and
strings. Strings may be quoted or literal. See [ACAP] for detailed
descriptions of these types.
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 1.3) and by a string consisting of human-readable text in the
local language (as returned by the LANGUAGE capability; see
Section 1.7), encoded in UTF-8 [UTF-8]. The contents of the string
SHOULD be shown to the user ,and implementations MUST NOT attempt to
parse the message for meaning.
The BYE response SHOULD be used if the server wishes to close the
connection. A server may wish to do this because the client was idle
for too long or there were too many failed authentication attempts.
This response can be issued at any time and should be immediately
followed by a server hang-up of the connection. If a server has an
inactivity timeout resulting in client autologout, it MUST be no less
than 30 minutes after successful authentication. The inactivity
timeout MAY be less before authentication.
1.3. Response Codes
An OK, NO, or BYE response from the server MAY contain a response
code to describe the event in a more detailed machine-parsable
fashion. A response code consists of data inside parentheses in the
form of an atom, possibly followed by a space and arguments.
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Response codes are defined when there is a specific action that a
client can take based upon the additional information. In order to
support future extension, the response code is represented as a
slash-separated (Solidus, %x2F) hierarchy with each level of
hierarchy representing increasing detail about the error. Response
codes MUST NOT start with the Solidus character. Clients MUST
tolerate additional hierarchical response code detail that they don't
understand. For example, if the client supports the "QUOTA" response
code, but doesn't understand the "QUOTA/MAXSCRIPTS" response code, it
should treat "QUOTA/MAXSCRIPTS" as "QUOTA".
Client implementations MUST tolerate (ignore) response codes that
they do not recognize.
The currently defined response codes are the following:
AUTH-TOO-WEAK
This response code is returned in the NO or BYE response from an
AUTHENTICATE command. It indicates that site security policy forbids
the use of the requested mechanism for the specified authentication
identity.
ENCRYPT-NEEDED
This response code is returned in the NO or BYE response from an
AUTHENTICATE command. It indicates that site security policy
requires the use of a strong encryption mechanism for the specified
authentication identity and mechanism.
QUOTA
If this response code is returned in the NO/BYE response, it means
that the command would have placed the user above the site-defined
quota constraints. If this response code is returned in the OK
response, it can mean that the user's storage is near its quota, or
it can mean that the account exceeded its quota but that the
condition is being allowed by the server (the server supports
so-called soft quotas). The QUOTA response code has two more
detailed variants: "QUOTA/MAXSCRIPTS" (the maximum number of per-user
scripts) and "QUOTA/MAXSIZE" (the maximum script size).
REFERRAL
This response code may be returned with a BYE result from any
command, and includes a mandatory parameter that indicates what
server to access to manage this user's Sieve scripts. The server
will be specified by a Sieve URL (see Section 3). The scriptname
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portion of the URL MUST NOT be specified. The client should
authenticate to the specified server and use it for all further
commands in the current session.
SASL
This response code can occur in the OK response to a successful
AUTHENTICATE command and includes the optional final server response
data from the server as specified by [SASL].
TRANSITION-NEEDED
This response code occurs in a NO response of an AUTHENTICATE
command. It indicates that the user name is valid, but the entry in
the authentication database needs to be updated in order to permit
authentication with the specified mechanism. This is typically done
by establishing a secure channel using TLS, verifying server identity
as specified in Section 2.2.1, and finally authenticating once using
the [PLAIN] authentication mechanism. The selected mechanism SHOULD
then work for authentications in subsequent sessions.
This condition can happen if a user has an entry in a system
authentication database such as Unix /etc/passwd, but does not have
credentials suitable for use by the specified mechanism.
TRYLATER
A command failed due to a temporary server failure. The client MAY
continue using local information and try the command later. This
response code only makes sense when returned in a NO/BYE response.
ACTIVE
A command failed because it is not allowed on the active script, for
example, DELETESCRIPT on the active script. This response code only
makes sense when returned in a NO/BYE response.
NONEXISTENT
A command failed because the referenced script name doesn't exist.
This response code only makes sense when returned in a NO/BYE
response.
ALREADYEXISTS
A command failed because the referenced script name already exists.
This response code only makes sense when returned in a NO/BYE
response.
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TAG
This response code name is followed by a string specified in the
command. See Section 2.13 for a possible use case.
WARNINGS
This response code MAY be returned by the server in the OK response
(but it might be returned with the NO/BYE response as well) and
signals the client that even though the script is syntactically
valid, it might contain errors not intended by the script writer.
This response code is typically returned in response to PUTSCRIPT
and/or CHECKSCRIPT commands. A client seeing such response code
SHOULD present the returned warning text to the user.
1.4. Active Script
A user may have multiple Sieve scripts on the server, yet only one
script may be used for filtering of incoming messages. This is the
active script. Users may have zero or one active script and MUST use
the SETACTIVE command described below for changing the active script
or disabling Sieve processing. For example, users may have an
everyday script they normally use and a special script they use when
they go on vacation. Users can change which script is being used
without having to download and upload a script stored somewhere else.
1.5. Quotas
Servers SHOULD impose quotas to prevent malicious users from
overflowing available storage. If a command would place a user over
a quota setting, servers that impose such quotas MUST reply with a NO
response containing the QUOTA response code. Client implementations
MUST be able to handle commands failing because of quota
restrictions.
1.6. Script Names
A Sieve script name is a sequence of Unicode characters encoded in
UTF-8 [UTF-8]. A script name MUST comply with Net-Unicode Definition
(Section 2 of [NET-UNICODE]), with the additional restriction of
prohibiting the following Unicode characters:
o 0000-001F; [CONTROL CHARACTERS]
o 007F; DELETE
o 0080-009F; [CONTROL CHARACTERS]
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o 2028; LINE SEPARATOR
o 2029; PARAGRAPH SEPARATOR
Sieve script names MUST be at least one octet (and hence Unicode
character) long. Zero octets script name has a special meaning (see
Section 2.8). Servers MUST allow names of up to 128 Unicode
characters in length (which can take up to 512 bytes when encoded in
UTF-8, not counting the terminating NUL), and MAY allow longer names.
A server that receives a script name longer than its internal limit
MUST reject the corresponding operation, in particular it MUST NOT
truncate the script name.
1.7. Capabilities
Server capabilities are sent automatically by the server upon a
client connection, or after successful STARTTLS and AUTHENTICATE
(which establishes a Simple Authentication and Security Layer (SASL))
commands. Capabilities may change immediately after a successfully
completed STARTTLS command, and/or immediately after a successfully
completed AUTHENTICATE command, and/or after a successfully completed
UNAUTHENTICATE command (see Section 2.14.1). Capabilities MUST
remain static at all other times.
Clients MAY request the capabilities at a later time by issuing the
CAPABILITY command described later. The capabilities consist of a
series of lines each with one or two strings. The first string is
the name of the capability, which is case-insensitive. The second
optional string is the value associated with that capability. Order
of capabilities is arbitrary, but each capability name can appear at
most once.
The following capabilities are defined in this document:
IMPLEMENTATION - Name of implementation and version. This capability
MUST always be returned by the server.
SASL - List of SASL mechanisms supported by the server, each
separated by a space. This list can be empty if and only if STARTTLS
is also advertised. This means that the client must negotiate TLS
encryption with STARTTLS first, at which point the SASL capability
will list a non-empty list of SASL mechanisms.
SIEVE - List of space-separated Sieve extensions (as listed in Sieve
"require" action [SIEVE]) supported by the Sieve engine. This
capability MUST always be returned by the server.
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STARTTLS - If TLS [TLS] is supported by this implementation. Before
advertising this capability a server MUST verify to the best of its
ability that TLS can be successfully negotiated by a client with
common cipher suites. Specifically, a server should verify that a
server certificate has been installed and that the TLS subsystem has
successfully initialized. This capability SHOULD NOT be advertised
once STARTTLS or AUTHENTICATE command completes successfully. Client
and server implementations MUST implement the STARTTLS extension.
MAXREDIRECTS - Specifies the limit on the number of Sieve "redirect"
actions a script can perform during a single evaluation. Note that
this is different from the total number of "redirect" actions a
script can contain. The value is a non-negative number represented
as a ManageSieve string.
NOTIFY - A space-separated list of URI schema parts for supported
notification methods. This capability MUST be specified if the Sieve
implementation supports the "enotify" extension [NOTIFY].
LANGUAGE - The language (<Language-Tag> from [RFC5646]) currently
used for human-readable error messages. If this capability is not
returned, the "i-default" [RFC2277] language is assumed. Note that
the current language MAY be per-user configurable (i.e., it MAY
change after authentication).
OWNER - The canonical name of the logged-in user (SASL "authorization
identity") encoded in UTF-8. This capability MUST NOT be returned in
unauthenticated state and SHOULD be returned once the AUTHENTICATE
command succeeds.
VERSION - This capability MUST be returned by servers compliant with
this document or its successor. For servers compliant with this
document, the capability value is the string "1.0". Lack of this
capability means that the server predates this specification and thus
doesn't support the following commands: RENAMESCRIPT, CHECKSCRIPT,
and NOOP.
Section 2.14 defines some additional ManageSieve extensions and their
respective capabilities.
A server implementation MUST return SIEVE, IMPLEMENTATION, and
VERSION capabilities.
A client implementation MUST ignore any listed capabilities that it
does not understand.
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Example:
S: "IMPlemENTATION" "Example1 ManageSieved v001"
S: "SASl" "DIGEST-MD5 GSSAPI"
S: "SIeVE" "fileinto vacation"
S: "StaRTTLS"
S: "NOTIFY" "xmpp mailto"
S: "MAXREdIRECTS" "5"
S: "VERSION" "1.0"
S: OK
After successful authentication, this might look like this:
Example:
S: "IMPlemENTATION" "Example1 ManageSieved v001"
S: "SASl" "DIGEST-MD5 GSSAPI"
S: "SIeVE" "fileinto vacation"
S: "NOTIFY" "xmpp mailto"
S: "OWNER" "alexey@example.com"
S: "MAXREdIRECTS" "5"
S: "VERSION" "1.0"
S: OK
1.8. Transport
The ManageSieve protocol assumes a reliable data stream such as that
provided by TCP. When TCP is used, a ManageSieve server typically
listens on port 4190.
Before opening the TCP connection, the ManageSieve client first MUST
resolve the Domain Name System (DNS) hostname associated with the
receiving entity and determine the appropriate TCP port for
communication with the receiving entity. The process is as follows:
1. Attempt to resolve the hostname using a [DNS-SRV] Service of
"sieve" and a Proto of "tcp" for the target domain (e.g.,
"example.net"), resulting in resource records such as
"_sieve._tcp.example.net.". The result of the SRV lookup, if
successful, will be one or more combinations of a port and
hostname; the ManageSieve client MUST resolve the returned
hostnames to IPv4/IPv6 addresses according to returned SRV record
weight. IP addresses from the first successfully resolved
hostname (with the corresponding port number returned by SRV
lookup) are used to connect to the server. If connection using
one of the IP addresses fails, the next resolved IP address is
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used to connect. If connection to all resolved IP addresses
fails, then the resolution/connect is repeated for the next
hostname returned by SRV lookup.
2. If the SRV lookup fails, the fallback SHOULD be a normal IPv4 or
IPv6 address record resolution to determine the IP address, where
the port used is the default ManageSieve port of 4190.
1.9. Conventions Used in This Document
The key words "MUST", "MUST NOT", "REQUIRED", "SHALL", "SHALL NOT",
"SHOULD", "SHOULD NOT", "RECOMMENDED", "MAY", and "OPTIONAL" in this
document are to be interpreted as described in [KEYWORDS].
In examples, "C:" and "S:" indicate lines sent by the client and
server respectively. Line breaks that do not start a new "C:" or
"S:" exist for editorial reasons.
Examples of authentication in this document are using DIGEST-MD5
[DIGEST-MD5] and GSSAPI [GSSAPI] SASL mechanisms.
2. Commands
This section and its subsections describe valid ManageSieve commands.
Upon initial connection to the server, the client's session is in
non-authenticated state. Prior to successful authentication, only
the AUTHENTICATE, CAPABILITY, STARTTLS, LOGOUT, and NOOP (see Section
2.13) commands are valid. ManageSieve extensions MAY define other
commands that are valid in non-authenticated state. Servers MUST
reject all other commands with a NO response. Clients may pipeline
commands (send more than one command at a time without waiting for
completion of the first command). However, a group of commands sent
together MUST NOT have an AUTHENTICATE (*), a STARTTLS, or a
HAVESPACE command anywhere but the last command in the list.
(*) - The only exception to this rule is when the AUTHENTICATE
command contains an initial response for a SASL mechanism that allows
clients to send data first, the mechanism is known to complete in one
round trip, and the mechanism doesn't negotiate a SASL security
layer. Two examples of such SASL mechanisms are PLAIN [PLAIN] and
EXTERNAL [SASL].
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2.1. AUTHENTICATE Command
Arguments: String - mechanism
String - initial data (optional)
The AUTHENTICATE command indicates a SASL [SASL] authentication
mechanism to the server. If the server supports the requested
authentication mechanism, it performs an authentication protocol
exchange to identify and authenticate the user. Optionally, it also
negotiates a security layer for subsequent protocol interactions. If
the requested authentication mechanism is not supported, the server
rejects the AUTHENTICATE command by sending the NO response.
The authentication protocol exchange consists of a series of server
challenges and client responses that are specific to the selected
authentication mechanism. A server challenge consists of a string
(quoted or literal) followed by a CRLF. The contents of the string
is a base-64 encoding [BASE64] of the SASL data. A client response
consists of a string (quoted or literal) with the base-64 encoding of
the SASL data followed by a CRLF. If the client wishes to cancel the
authentication exchange, it issues a string containing a single "*".
If the server receives such a response, it MUST reject the
AUTHENTICATE command by sending a NO reply.
Note that an empty challenge/response is sent as an empty string. If
the mechanism dictates that the final response is sent by the server,
this data MAY be placed within the data portion of the SASL response
code to save a round trip.
The optional initial-response argument to the AUTHENTICATE command is
used to save a round trip when using authentication mechanisms that
are defined to send no data in the initial challenge. When the
initial-response argument is used with such a mechanism, the initial
empty challenge is not sent to the client and the server uses the
data in the initial-response argument as if it were sent in response
to the empty challenge. If the initial-response argument to the
AUTHENTICATE command is used with a mechanism that sends data in the
initial challenge, the server MUST reject the AUTHENTICATE command by
sending the NO response.
The service name specified by this protocol's profile of SASL is
"sieve".
Reauthentication is not supported by ManageSieve protocol's profile
of SASL. That is, after a successfully completed AUTHENTICATE
command, no more AUTHENTICATE commands may be issued in the same
session. After a successful AUTHENTICATE command completes, a server
MUST reject any further AUTHENTICATE commands with a NO reply.
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However, note that a server may implement the UNAUTHENTICATE
extension described in Section 2.14.1.
If a security layer is negotiated through the SASL authentication
exchange, it takes effect immediately following the CRLF that
concludes the successful authentication exchange for the client, and
the CRLF of the OK response for the server.
When a security layer takes effect, the ManageSieve protocol is reset
to the initial state (the state in ManageSieve after a client has
connected to the server). The server MUST discard any knowledge
obtained from the client that was not obtained from the SASL (or TLS)
negotiation itself. Likewise, the client MUST discard any knowledge
obtained from the server, such as the list of ManageSieve extensions,
that was not obtained from the SASL (and/or TLS) negotiation itself.
(Note that a client MAY compare the advertised SASL mechanisms before
and after authentication in order to detect an active down-
negotiation attack. See below.)
Once a SASL security layer is established, the server MUST re-issue
the capability results, followed by an OK response. This is
necessary to protect against man-in-the-middle attacks that alter the
capabilities list prior to SASL negotiation. The capability results
MUST include all SASL mechanisms the server was capable of
negotiating with that client. This is done in order to allow the
client to detect an active down-negotiation attack. If a user-
oriented client detects such a down-negotiation attack, it SHOULD
either notify the user (it MAY give the user the opportunity to
continue with the ManageSieve session in this case) or close the
transport connection and indicate that a down-negotiation attack
might be in progress. If an automated client detects a down-
negotiation attack, it SHOULD return or log an error indicating that
a possible attack might be in progress and/or SHOULD close the
transport connection.
When both [TLS] and SASL security layers are in effect, the TLS
encoding MUST be applied (when sending data) after the SASL encoding.
Server implementations SHOULD support SASL proxy authentication so
that an administrator can administer a user's scripts. Proxy
authentication is when a user authenticates as herself/himself but
requests the server to act (authorize) as another user.
The authorization identity generated by this [SASL] exchange is a
"simple username" (in the sense defined in [SASLprep]), and both
client and server MUST use the [SASLprep] profile of the [StringPrep]
algorithm to prepare these names for transmission or comparison. If
preparation of the authorization identity fails or results in an
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empty string (unless it was transmitted as the empty string), the
server MUST fail the authentication.
If an AUTHENTICATE command fails with a NO response, the client MAY
try another authentication mechanism by issuing another AUTHENTICATE
command. In other words, the client may request authentication types
in decreasing order of preference.
Note that a failed (NO) response to the AUTHENTICATE command may
contain one of the following response codes: AUTH-TOO-WEAK, ENCRYPT-
NEEDED, or TRANSITION-NEEDED. See Section 1.3 for detailed
description of the relevant conditions.
To ensure interoperability, both client and server implementations of
the ManageSieve protocol MUST implement the SCRAM-SHA-1 [SCRAM] SASL
mechanism, as well as [PLAIN] over [TLS].
Note: use of PLAIN over TLS reflects current use of PLAIN over TLS in
other email-related protocols; however, a longer-term goal is to
migrate email-related protocols from using PLAIN over TLS to SCRAM-
SHA-1 mechanism.
Examples (Note that long lines are folded for readability and are not
part of protocol exchange):
S: "IMPLEMENTATION" "Example1 ManageSieved v001"
S: "SASL" "DIGEST-MD5 GSSAPI"
S: "SIEVE" "fileinto vacation"
S: "STARTTLS"
S: "VERSION" "1.0"
S: OK
C: Authenticate "DIGEST-MD5"
S: "cmVhbG09ImVsd29vZC5pbm5vc29mdC5leGFtcGxlLmNvbSIsbm9uY2U9Ik
9BNk1HOXRFUUdtMmhoIixxb3A9ImF1dGgiLGFsZ29yaXRobT1tZDUtc2Vz
cyxjaGFyc2V0PXV0Zi04"
C: "Y2hhcnNldD11dGYtOCx1c2VybmFtZT0iY2hyaXMiLHJlYWxtPSJlbHdvb2
QuaW5ub3NvZnQuZXhhbXBsZS5jb20iLG5vbmNlPSJPQTZNRzl0RVFHbTJo
aCIsbmM9MDAwMDAwMDEsY25vbmNlPSJPQTZNSFhoNlZxVHJSayIsZGlnZX
N0LXVyaT0ic2lldmUvZWx3b29kLmlubm9zb2Z0LmV4YW1wbGUuY29tIixy
ZXNwb25zZT1kMzg4ZGFkOTBkNGJiZDc2MGExNTIzMjFmMjE0M2FmNyxxb3
A9YXV0aA=="
S: OK (SASL "cnNwYXV0aD1lYTQwZjYwMzM1YzQyN2I1NTI3Yjg0ZGJhYmNkZ
mZmZA==")
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A slightly different variant of the same authentication exchange is:
S: "IMPLEMENTATION" "Example1 ManageSieved v001"
S: "SASL" "DIGEST-MD5 GSSAPI"
S: "SIEVE" "fileinto vacation"
S: "VERSION" "1.0"
S: "STARTTLS"
S: OK
C: Authenticate "DIGEST-MD5"
S: {136}
S: cmVhbG09ImVsd29vZC5pbm5vc29mdC5leGFtcGxlLmNvbSIsbm9uY2U9Ik
9BNk1HOXRFUUdtMmhoIixxb3A9ImF1dGgiLGFsZ29yaXRobT1tZDUtc2Vz
cyxjaGFyc2V0PXV0Zi04
C: {300+}
C: Y2hhcnNldD11dGYtOCx1c2VybmFtZT0iY2hyaXMiLHJlYWxtPSJlbHdvb2
QuaW5ub3NvZnQuZXhhbXBsZS5jb20iLG5vbmNlPSJPQTZNRzl0RVFHbTJo
aCIsbmM9MDAwMDAwMDEsY25vbmNlPSJPQTZNSFhoNlZxVHJSayIsZGlnZX
N0LXVyaT0ic2lldmUvZWx3b29kLmlubm9zb2Z0LmV4YW1wbGUuY29tIixy
ZXNwb25zZT1kMzg4ZGFkOTBkNGJiZDc2MGExNTIzMjFmMjE0M2FmNyxxb3
A9YXV0aA==
S: {56}
S: cnNwYXV0aD1lYTQwZjYwMzM1YzQyN2I1NTI3Yjg0ZGJhYmNkZmZmZA==
C: ""
S: OK
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Another example demonstrating use of SASL PLAIN mechanism under TLS
follows. This example also demonstrate use of SASL "initial
response" (the second parameter to the Authenticate command):
S: "IMPLEMENTATION" "Example1 ManageSieved v001"
S: "VERSION" "1.0"
S: "SASL" ""
S: "SIEVE" "fileinto vacation"
S: "STARTTLS"
S: OK
C: STARTTLS
S: OK
<TLS negotiation, further commands are under TLS layer>
S: "IMPLEMENTATION" "Example1 ManageSieved v001"
S: "VERSION" "1.0"
S: "SASL" "PLAIN"
S: "SIEVE" "fileinto vacation"
S: OK
C: Authenticate "PLAIN" "QJIrweAPyo6Q1T9xu"
S: NO
C: Authenticate "PLAIN" "QJIrweAPyo6Q1T9xz"
S: NO
C: Authenticate "PLAIN" "QJIrweAPyo6Q1T9xy"
S: BYE "Too many failed authentication attempts"
<Server closes connection>
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The following example demonstrates use of SASL "initial response".
It also demonstrates that an empty response can be sent as a literal
and that negotiating a SASL security layer results in the server
re-issuing server capabilities:
C: AUTHENTICATE "GSSAPI" {1488+}
C: YIIE[...1480 octets here ...]dA==
S: {208}
S: YIGZBgkqhkiG9xIBAgICAG+BiTCBhqADAgEFoQMCAQ+iejB4oAMCARKic
[...114 octets here ...]
/yzpAy9p+Y0LanLskOTvMc0MnjgAa4YEr3eJ6
C: {0+}
C:
S: {44}
S: BQQF/wAMAAwAAAAAYRGFAo6W0vIHti8i1UXODgEAEAA=
C: {44+}
C: BQQE/wAMAAwAAAAAIsT1iv9UkZApw471iXt6cwEAAAE=
S: OK
<Further commands/responses are under SASL security layer>
S: "IMPLEMENTATION" "Example1 ManageSieved v001"
S: "VERSION" "1.0"
S: "SASL" "PLAIN DIGEST-MD5 GSSAPI"
S: "SIEVE" "fileinto vacation"
S: "LANGUAGE" "ru"
S: "MAXREDIRECTS" "3"
S: ok
2.1.1. Use of SASL PLAIN Mechanism over TLS
This section is normative for ManageSieve client implementations that
support SASL [PLAIN] over [TLS].
If a ManageSieve client is willing to use SASL PLAIN over TLS to
authenticate to the ManageSieve server, the client MUST verify the
server identity (see Section 2.2.1). If the server identity can't be
verified (e.g., the server has not provided any certificate, or if
the certificate verification fails), the client MUST NOT attempt to
authenticate using the SASL PLAIN mechanism.
2.2. STARTTLS Command
Support for STARTTLS command in servers is optional. Its
availability is advertised with "STARTTLS" capability as described in
Section 1.7.
The STARTTLS command requests commencement of a TLS [TLS]
negotiation. The negotiation begins immediately after the CRLF in
the OK response. After a client issues a STARTTLS command, it MUST
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NOT issue further commands until a server response is seen and the
TLS negotiation is complete.
The STARTTLS command is only valid in non-authenticated state. The
server remains in non-authenticated state, even if client credentials
are supplied during the TLS negotiation. The SASL [SASL] EXTERNAL
mechanism MAY be used to authenticate once TLS client credentials are
successfully exchanged, but servers supporting the STARTTLS command
are not required to support the EXTERNAL mechanism.
After the TLS layer is established, the server MUST re-issue the
capability results, followed by an OK response. This is necessary to
protect against man-in-the-middle attacks that alter the capabilities
list prior to STARTTLS. This capability result MUST NOT include the
STARTTLS capability.
The client MUST discard cached capability information and replace it
with the new information. The server MAY advertise different
capabilities after STARTTLS.
Example:
C: StartTls
S: oK
<TLS negotiation, further commands are under TLS layer>
S: "IMPLEMENTATION" "Example1 ManageSieved v001"
S: "SASL" "PLAIN DIGEST-MD5 GSSAPI"
S: "SIEVE" "fileinto vacation"
S: "VERSION" "1.0"
S: "LANGUAGE" "fr"
S: ok
2.2.1. Server Identity Check
During the TLS negotiation, the ManageSieve client MUST check its
understanding of the server hostname/IP address against the server's
identity as presented in the server Certificate message, in order to
prevent man-in-the-middle attacks. In this section, the client's
understanding of the server's identity is called the "reference
identity".
Checking is performed according to the following rules:
o If the reference identity is a hostname:
1. If a subjectAltName extension of the SRVName [X509-SRV],
dNSName [X509] (in that order of preference) type is present
in the server's certificate, then it SHOULD be used as the
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source of the server's identity. Matching is performed as
described in Section 2.2.1.1, with the exception that no
wildcard matching is allowed for SRVName type. If the
certificate contains multiple names (e.g., more than one
dNSName field), then a match with any one of the fields is
considered acceptable.
2. The client MAY use other types of subjectAltName for
performing comparison.
3. The server's identity MAY also be verified by comparing the
reference identity to the Common Name (CN) [RFC4519] value in
the leaf Relative Distinguished Name (RDN) of the subjectName
field of the server's certificate. This comparison is
performed using the rules for comparison of DNS names in
Section 2.2.1.1, below. Although the use of the Common Name
value is existing practice, it is deprecated, and
Certification Authorities are encouraged to provide
subjectAltName values instead. Note that the TLS
implementation may represent DNs in certificates according to
X.500 or other conventions. For example, some X.500
implementations order the RDNs in a DN using a left-to-right
(most significant to least significant) convention instead of
LDAP's right-to-left convention.
o When the reference identity is an IP address, the iPAddress
subjectAltName SHOULD be used by the client for comparison. The
comparison is performed as described in Section 2.2.1.2.
If the server identity check fails, user-oriented clients SHOULD
either notify the user (clients MAY give the user the opportunity to
continue with the ManageSieve session in this case) or close the
transport connection and indicate that the server's identity is
suspect. Automated clients SHOULD return or log an error indicating
that the server's identity is suspect and/or SHOULD close the
transport connection. Automated clients MAY provide a configuration
setting that disables this check, but MUST provide a setting that
enables it.
Beyond the server identity check described in this section, clients
should be prepared to do further checking to ensure that the server
is authorized to provide the service it is requested to provide. The
client may need to make use of local policy information in making
this determination.
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2.2.1.1. Comparison of DNS Names
If the reference identity is an internationalized domain name,
conforming implementations MUST convert it to the ASCII Compatible
Encoding (ACE) format as specified in Section 4 of RFC 3490 [RFC3490]
before comparison with subjectAltName values of type dNSName.
Specifically, conforming implementations MUST perform the conversion
operation specified in Section 4 of [RFC3490] as follows:
o in step 1, the domain name SHALL be considered a "stored string";
o in step 3, set the flag called "UseSTD3ASCIIRules";
o in step 4, process each label with the "ToASCII" operation; and
o in step 5, change all label separators to U+002E (full stop).
After performing the "to-ASCII" conversion, the DNS labels and names
MUST be compared for equality according to the rules specified in
Section 3 of [RFC3490]; i.e., once all label separators are replaced
with U+002E (dot) they are compared in the case-insensitive manner.
The '*' (ASCII 42) wildcard character is allowed in subjectAltName
values of type dNSName, and then only as the left-most (least
significant) DNS label in that value. This wildcard matches any
left-most DNS label in the server name. That is, the subject
*.example.com matches the server names a.example.com and
b.example.com, but does not match example.com or a.b.example.com.
2.2.1.2. Comparison of IP Addresses
When the reference identity is an IP address, the identity MUST be
converted to the "network byte order" octet string representation
[RFC791][RFC2460]. For IP Version 4, as specified in RFC 791, the
octet string will contain exactly four octets. For IP Version 6, as
specified in RFC 2460, the octet string will contain exactly sixteen
octets. This octet string is then compared against subjectAltName
values of type iPAddress. A match occurs if the reference identity
octet string and value octet strings are identical.
2.2.1.3. Comparison of Other subjectName Types
Client implementations MAY support matching against subjectAltName
values of other types as described in other documents.
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2.3. LOGOUT Command
The client sends the LOGOUT command when it is finished with a
connection and wishes to terminate it. The server MUST reply with an
OK response. The server MUST ignore commands issued by the client
after the LOGOUT command.
The client SHOULD wait for the OK response before closing the
connection. This avoids the TCP connection going into the TIME_WAIT
state on the server. In order to avoid going into the TIME_WAIT TCP
state, the server MAY wait for a short while for the client to close
the TCP connection first. Whether or not the server waits for the
client to close the connection, it MUST then close the connection
itself.
Example:
C: Logout
S: Ok
<connection is terminated>
2.4. CAPABILITY Command
The CAPABILITY command requests the server capabilities as described
earlier in this document. It has no parameters.
Example:
C: CAPABILITY
S: "IMPLEMENTATION" "Example1 ManageSieved v001"
S: "VERSION" "1.0"
S: "SASL" "PLAIN SCRAM-SHA-1 GSSAPI"
S: "SIEVE" "fileinto vacation"
S: "STARTTLS"
S: OK
2.5. HAVESPACE Command
Arguments: String - name
Number - script size
The HAVESPACE command is used to query the server for available
space. Clients specify the name they wish to save the script as and
its size in octets. Both parameters can be used by the server to see
if the script with the specified name and size is within a user's
quota(s). For example, the server MAY use the script name to check
if a script would be replaced or a new one would be created. Servers
respond with a NO if storing a script with that name and size would
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fail or OK otherwise. Clients SHOULD issue this command before
attempting to place a script on the server.
Note that the OK response from the HAVESPACE command does not
constitute a guarantee of success as server disk space conditions
could change between the client issuing the HAVESPACE and the client
issuing the PUTSCRIPT commands. A QUOTA response code (see
Section 1.3) remains a possible (albeit unlikely) response to a
subsequent PUTSCRIPT with the same name and size.
Example:
C: HAVESPACE "myscript" 999999
S: NO (QUOTA/MAXSIZE) "Quota exceeded"
C: HAVESPACE "foobar" 435
S: OK
2.6. PUTSCRIPT Command
Arguments: String - Script name
String - Script content
The PUTSCRIPT command is used by the client to submit a Sieve script
to the server.
If the script already exists, upon success the old script will be
overwritten. The old script MUST NOT be overwritten if PUTSCRIPT
fails in any way. A script of zero length SHOULD be disallowed.
This command places the script on the server. It does not affect
whether the script is processed on incoming mail, unless it replaces
the script that is already active. The SETACTIVE command is used to
mark a script as active.
When submitting large scripts, clients SHOULD use the HAVESPACE
command beforehand to query if the server is willing to accept a
script of that size.
The server MUST check the submitted script for validity, which
includes checking that the script complies with the Sieve grammar
[SIEVE] and that all Sieve extensions mentioned in the script's
"require" statement(s) are supported by the Sieve interpreter. (Note
that if the Sieve interpreter supports the Sieve "ihave" extension
[I-HAVE], any unrecognized/unsupported extension mentioned in the
"ihave" test MUST NOT cause the validation failure.) Other checks
such as validating the supplied command arguments for each command
MAY be performed. Essentially, the performed validation SHOULD be
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the same as performed when compiling the script for execution.
Implementations that use a binary representation to store compiled
scripts can extend the validation to a full compilation, in order to
avoid validating uploaded scripts multiple times.
If the script fails the validation, the server MUST reply with a NO
response. Any script that fails the validity test MUST NOT be stored
on the server. The message given with a NO response MUST be human
readable and SHOULD contain a specific error message giving the line
number of the first error. Implementors should strive to produce
helpful error messages similar to those given by programming language
compilers. Client implementations should note that this may be a
multiline literal string with more than one error message separated
by CRLFs. The human-readable message is in the language returned in
the latest LANGUAGE capability (or in "i-default"; see Section 1.7),
encoded in UTF-8 [UTF-8].
An OK response MAY contain the WARNINGS response code. In such a
case the human-readable message that follows the OK response SHOULD
contain a specific warning message (or messages) giving the line
number(s) in the script that might contain errors not intended by the
script writer. The human-readable message is in the language
returned in the latest LANGUAGE capability (or in "i-default"; see
Section 1.7), encoded in UTF-8 [UTF-8]. A client seeing such a
response code SHOULD present the message to the user.
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Examples:
C: Putscript "foo" {31+}
C: #comment
C: InvalidSieveCommand
C:
S: NO "line 2: Syntax error"
C: Putscript "mysievescript" {110+}
C: require ["fileinto"];
C:
C: if envelope :contains "to" "tmartin+sent" {
C: fileinto "INBOX.sent";
C: }
S: OK
C: Putscript "myforwards" {190+}
C: redirect "111@example.net";
C:
C: if size :under 10k {
C: redirect "mobile@cell.example.com";
C: }
C:
C: if envelope :contains "to" "tmartin+lists" {
C: redirect "lists@groups.example.com";
C: }
S: OK (WARNINGS) "line 8: server redirect action
limit is 2, this redirect might be ignored"
2.7. LISTSCRIPTS Command
This command lists the scripts the user has on the server. Upon
success, a list of CRLF-separated script names (each represented as a
quoted or literal string) is returned followed by an OK response. If
there exists an active script, the atom ACTIVE is appended to the
corresponding script name. The atom ACTIVE MUST NOT appear on more
than one response line.
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Example:
C: Listscripts
S: "summer_script"
S: "vacation_script"
S: {13}
S: clever"script
S: "main_script" ACTIVE
S: OK
C: listscripts
S: "summer_script"
S: "main_script" active
S: OK
2.8. SETACTIVE Command
Arguments: String - script name
This command sets a script active. If the script name is the empty
string (i.e., ""), then any active script is disabled. Disabling an
active script when there is no script active is not an error and MUST
result in an OK reply.
If the script does not exist on the server, then the server MUST
reply with a NO response. Such a reply SHOULD contain the
NONEXISTENT response code.
Examples:
C: Setactive "vacationscript"
S: Ok
C: Setactive ""
S: Ok
C: Setactive "baz"
S: No (NONEXISTENT) "There is no script by that name"
C: Setactive "baz"
S: No (NONEXISTENT) {31}
S: There is no script by that name
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2.9. GETSCRIPT Command
Arguments: String - script name
This command gets the contents of the specified script. If the
script does not exist, the server MUST reply with a NO response.
Such a reply SHOULD contain the NONEXISTENT response code.
Upon success, a string with the contents of the script is returned
followed by an OK response.
Example:
C: Getscript "myscript"
S: {54}
S: #this is my wonderful script
S: reject "I reject all";
S:
S: OK
2.10. DELETESCRIPT Command
Arguments: String - script name
This command is used to delete a user's Sieve script. Servers MUST
reply with a NO response if the script does not exist. Such
responses SHOULD include the NONEXISTENT response code.
The server MUST NOT allow the client to delete an active script, so
the server MUST reply with a NO response if attempted. Such a
response SHOULD contain the ACTIVE response code. If a client wishes
to delete an active script, it should use the SETACTIVE command to
disable the script first.
Example:
C: Deletescript "foo"
S: Ok
C: Deletescript "baz"
S: No (ACTIVE) "You may not delete an active script"
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2.11. RENAMESCRIPT Command
Arguments: String - Old Script name
String - New Script name
This command is used to rename a user's Sieve script. Servers MUST
reply with a NO response if the old script does not exist (in which
case the NONEXISTENT response code SHOULD be included), or a script
with the new name already exists (in which case the ALREADYEXISTS
response code SHOULD be included). Renaming the active script is
allowed; the renamed script remains active.
Example:
C: Renamescript "foo" "bar"
S: Ok
C: Renamescript "baz" "bar"
S: No "bar already exists"
If the server doesn't support the RENAMESCRIPT command, the client
can emulate it by performing the following steps:
1. List available scripts with LISTSCRIPTS. If the script with the
new script name exists, then the client should ask the user
whether to abort the operation, to replace the script (by issuing
the DELETESCRIPT <newname> after that), or to choose a different
name.
2. Download the old script with GETSCRIPT <oldname>.
3. Upload the old script with the new name: PUTSCRIPT <newname>.
4. If the old script was active (as reported by LISTSCRIPTS in step
1), then make the new script active: SETACTIVE <newname>.
5. Delete the old script: DELETESCRIPT <oldname>.
Note that these steps don't describe how to handle various other
error conditions (for example, NO response containing QUOTA response
code in step 3). Error handling is left as an exercise for the
reader.
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2.12. CHECKSCRIPT Command
Arguments: String - Script content
The CHECKSCRIPT command is used by the client to verify Sieve script
validity without storing the script on the server.
The server MUST check the submitted script for syntactic validity,
which includes checking that all Sieve extensions mentioned in Sieve
script "require" statement(s) are supported by the Sieve interpreter.
(Note that if the Sieve interpreter supports the Sieve "ihave"
extension [I-HAVE], any unrecognized/unsupported extension mentioned
in the "ihave" test MUST NOT cause the syntactic validation failure.)
If the script fails this test, the server MUST reply with a NO
response. The message given with a NO response MUST be human
readable and SHOULD contain a specific error message giving the line
number of the first error. Implementors should strive to produce
helpful error messages similar to those given by programming language
compilers. Client implementations should note that this may be a
multiline literal string with more than one error message separated
by CRLFs. The human-readable message is in the language returned in
the latest LANGUAGE capability (or in "i-default"; see Section 1.7),
encoded in UTF-8 [UTF-8].
Examples:
C: CheckScript {31+}
C: #comment
C: InvalidSieveCommand
C:
S: NO "line 2: Syntax error"
A ManageSieve server supporting this command MUST NOT check if the
script will put the current user over its quota limit.
An OK response MAY contain the WARNINGS response code. In such a
case, the human-readable message that follows the OK response SHOULD
contain a specific warning message (or messages) giving the line
number(s) in the script that might contain errors not intended by the
script writer. The human-readable message is in the language
returned in the latest LANGUAGE capability (or in "i-default"; see
Section 1.7), encoded in UTF-8 [UTF-8]. A client seeing such a
response code SHOULD present the message to the user.
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2.13. NOOP Command
Arguments: String - tag to echo back (optional)
The NOOP command does nothing, beyond returning a response to the
client. It may be used by clients for protocol re-synchronization or
to reset any inactivity auto-logout timer on the server.
The response to the NOOP command is always OK, followed by the TAG
response code together with the supplied string. If no string was
supplied in the NOOP command, the TAG response code MUST NOT be
included.
Examples:
C: NOOP
S: OK "NOOP completed"
C: NOOP "STARTTLS-SYNC-42"
S: OK (TAG {16}
S: STARTTLS-SYNC-42) "Done"
2.14. Recommended Extensions
The UNAUTHENTICATE extension (advertised as the "UNAUTHENTICATE"
capability with no parameters) defines a new UNAUTHENTICATE command,
which allows a client to return the server to non-authenticated
state. Support for this extension is RECOMMENDED.
2.14.1. UNAUTHENTICATE Command
The UNAUTHENTICATE command returns the server to the
non-authenticated state. It doesn't affect any previously
established TLS [TLS] or SASL (Section 2.1) security layer.
The UNAUTHENTICATE command is only valid in authenticated state. If
issued in a wrong state, the server MUST reject it with a NO
response.
The UNAUTHENTICATE command has no parameters.
When issued in the authenticated state, the UNAUTHENTICATE command
MUST NOT fail (i.e., it must never return anything other than OK or
BYE).
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3. Sieve URL Scheme
URI scheme name: sieve
Status: permanent
URI scheme syntax: Described using ABNF [ABNF]. Some ABNF
productions not defined below are from [URI-GEN].
sieveurl = sieveurl-server / sieveurl-list-scripts /
sieveurl-script
sieveurl-server = "sieve://" authority
sieveurl-list-scripts = "sieve://" authority ["/"]
sieveurl-script = "sieve://" authority "/"
[owner "/"] scriptname
authority = <defined in [URI-GEN]>
owner = *ochar
;; %-encoded version of [SASL] authorization
;; identity (script owner) or "userid".
;;
;; Empty owner is used to reference
;; global scripts.
;;
;; Note that ASCII characters such as " ", ";",
;; "&", "=", "/" and "?" must be %-encoded
;; as per rule specified in [URI-GEN].
scriptname = 1*ochar
;; %-encoded version of UTF-8 representation
;; of the script name.
;; Note that ASCII characters such as " ", ";",
;; "&", "=", "/" and "?" must be %-encoded
;; as per rule specified in [URI-GEN].
ochar = unreserved / pct-encoded / sub-delims-sh /
":" / "@"
;; Same as [URI-GEN] 'pchar',
;; but without ";", "&" and "=".
unreserved = <defined in [URI-GEN]>
pct-encoded = <defined in [URI-GEN]>
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sub-delims-sh = "!" / "$" / "'" / "(" / ")" /
"*" / "+" / ","
;; Same as [URI-GEN] sub-delims,
;; but without ";", "&" and "=".
URI scheme semantics:
A Sieve URL identifies a Sieve server or a Sieve script on a Sieve
server. The latter form is associated with the application/sieve
MIME type defined in [SIEVE]. There is no MIME type associated
with the former form of Sieve URI.
The server form is used in the REFERRAL response code (see Section
1.3) in order to designate another server where the client should
perform its operations.
The script form allows to retrieve (GETSCRIPT), update
(PUTSCRIPT), delete (DELETESCRIPT), or activate (SETACTIVE) the
named script; however, the most typical action would be to
retrieve the script. If the script name is empty (omitted), the
URI requests that the client lists available scripts using the
LISTSCRIPTS command.
Encoding considerations:
The script name and/or the owner, if present, is in UTF-8. Non--
US-ASCII UTF-8 octets MUST be percent-encoded as described in
[URI-GEN]. US-ASCII characters such as " " (space), ";", "&",
"=", "/" and "?" MUST be %-encoded as described in [URI-GEN].
Note that "&" and "?" are in this list in order to allow for
future extensions.
Note that the empty owner (e.g., sieve://example.com//script) is
different from the missing owner (e.g.,
sieve://example.com/script) and is reserved for referencing global
scripts.
The user name (in the "authority" part), if present, is in UTF-8.
Non-US-ASCII UTF-8 octets MUST be percent-encoded as described in
[URI-GEN].
Applications/protocols that use this URI scheme name:
ManageSieve [RFC5804] clients and servers. Clients that can store
user preferences in protocols such as [LDAP] or [ACAP].
Interoperability considerations: None.
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Security considerations:
The <scriptname> part of a ManageSieve URL might potentially disclose
some confidential information about the author of the script or,
depending on a ManageSieve implementation, about configuration of the
mail system. The latter might be used to prepare for a more complex
attack on the mail system.
Clients resolving ManageSieve URLs that wish to achieve data
confidentiality and/or integrity SHOULD use the STARTTLS command (if
supported by the server) before starting authentication, or use a
SASL mechanism, such as GSSAPI, that provides a confidentiality
security layer.
Contact: Alexey Melnikov <alexey.melnikov@isode.com>
Author/Change controller: IESG.
References: This document and RFC 5228 [SIEVE].
4. Formal Syntax
The following syntax specification uses the Augmented Backus-Naur
Form (BNF) notation as specified in [ABNF]. This uses the ABNF core
rules as specified in Appendix A of the ABNF specification [ABNF].
"UTF8-2", "UTF8-3", and "UTF8-4" non-terminal are defined in [UTF-8].
Except as noted otherwise, all alphabetic characters are case-
insensitive. The use of upper- or lowercase characters to define
token strings is for editorial clarity only. Implementations MUST
accept these strings in a case-insensitive fashion.
SAFE-CHAR = %x01-09 / %x0B-0C / %x0E-21 / %x23-5B /
%x5D-7F
;; any TEXT-CHAR except QUOTED-SPECIALS
QUOTED-CHAR = SAFE-UTF8-CHAR / "\" QUOTED-SPECIALS
QUOTED-SPECIALS = DQUOTE / "\"
SAFE-UTF8-CHAR = SAFE-CHAR / UTF8-2 / UTF8-3 / UTF8-4
;; <UTF8-2>, <UTF8-3>, and <UTF8-4>
;; are defined in [UTF-8].
ATOM-CHAR = "!" / %x23-27 / %x2A-5B / %x5D-7A / %x7C-7E
;; Any CHAR except ATOM-SPECIALS
ATOM-SPECIALS = "(" / ")" / "{" / SP / CTL / QUOTED-SPECIALS
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NZDIGIT = %x31-39
;; 1-9
atom = 1*1024ATOM-CHAR
iana-token = atom
;; MUST be registered with IANA
auth-type = DQUOTE auth-type-name DQUOTE
auth-type-name = iana-token
;; as defined in SASL [SASL]
command = (command-any / command-auth /
command-nonauth) CRLF
;; Modal based on state
command-any = command-capability / command-logout /
command-noop
;; Valid in all states
command-auth = command-getscript / command-setactive /
command-listscripts / command-deletescript /
command-putscript / command-checkscript /
command-havespace /
command-renamescript /
command-unauthenticate
;; Valid only in Authenticated state
command-nonauth = command-authenticate / command-starttls
;; Valid only when in Non-Authenticated
;; state
command-authenticate = "AUTHENTICATE" SP auth-type [SP string]
*(CRLF string)
command-capability = "CAPABILITY"
command-deletescript = "DELETESCRIPT" SP sieve-name
command-getscript = "GETSCRIPT" SP sieve-name
command-havespace = "HAVESPACE" SP sieve-name SP number
command-listscripts = "LISTSCRIPTS"
command-noop = "NOOP" [SP string]
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command-logout = "LOGOUT"
command-putscript = "PUTSCRIPT" SP sieve-name SP sieve-script
command-checkscript = "CHECKSCRIPT" SP sieve-script
sieve-script = string
command-renamescript = "RENAMESCRIPT" SP old-sieve-name SP
new-sieve-name
old-sieve-name = sieve-name
new-sieve-name = sieve-name
command-setactive = "SETACTIVE" SP active-sieve-name
command-starttls = "STARTTLS"
command-unauthenticate= "UNAUTHENTICATE"
extend-token = atom
;; MUST be defined by a Standards Track or
;; IESG-approved experimental protocol
;; extension
extension-data = extension-item *(SP extension-item)
extension-item = extend-token / string / number /
"(" [extension-data] ")"
literal-c2s = "{" number "+}" CRLF *OCTET
;; The number represents the number of
;; octets.
;; This type of literal can only be sent
;; from the client to the server.
literal-s2c = "{" number "}" CRLF *OCTET
;; Almost identical to literal-c2s,
;; but with no '+' character.
;; The number represents the number of
;; octets.
;; This type of literal can only be sent
;; from the server to the client.
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number = (NZDIGIT *DIGIT) / "0"
;; A 32-bit unsigned number
;; with no extra leading zeros.
;; (0 <= n < 4,294,967,296)
number-str = string
;; <number> encoded as a <string>.
quoted = DQUOTE *1024QUOTED-CHAR DQUOTE
;; limited to 1024 octets between the <">s
resp-code = "AUTH-TOO-WEAK" / "ENCRYPT-NEEDED" / "QUOTA"
["/" ("MAXSCRIPTS" / "MAXSIZE")] /
resp-code-sasl /
resp-code-referral /
"TRANSITION-NEEDED" / "TRYLATER" /
"ACTIVE" / "NONEXISTENT" /
"ALREADYEXISTS" / "WARNINGS" /
"TAG" SP string /
resp-code-ext
resp-code-referral = "REFERRAL" SP sieveurl
resp-code-sasl = "SASL" SP string
resp-code-name = iana-token
;; The response code name is hierarchical,
;; separated by '/'.
;; The response code name MUST NOT start
;; with '/'.
resp-code-ext = resp-code-name [SP extension-data]
;; unknown response codes MUST be tolerated
;; by the client.
response = response-authenticate /
response-logout /
response-getscript /
response-setactive /
response-listscripts /
response-deletescript /
response-putscript /
response-checkscript /
response-capability /
response-havespace /
response-starttls /
response-renamescript /
response-noop /
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response-unauthenticate
response-authenticate = *(string CRLF)
((response-ok [response-capability]) /
response-nobye)
;; <response-capability> is REQUIRED if a
;; SASL security layer was negotiated and
;; MUST be omitted otherwise.
response-capability = *(single-capability) response-oknobye
single-capability = capability-name [SP string] CRLF
capability-name = string
;; Note that literal-s2c is allowed.
initial-capabilities = DQUOTE "IMPLEMENTATION" DQUOTE SP string /
DQUOTE "SASL" DQUOTE SP sasl-mechs /
DQUOTE "SIEVE" DQUOTE SP sieve-extensions /
DQUOTE "MAXREDIRECTS" DQUOTE SP number-str /
DQUOTE "NOTIFY" DQUOTE SP notify-mechs /
DQUOTE "STARTTLS" DQUOTE /
DQUOTE "LANGUAGE" DQUOTE SP language /
DQUOTE "VERSION" DQUOTE SP version /
DQUOTE "OWNER" DQUOTE SP string
;; Each capability conforms to
;; the syntax for single-capability.
;; Also, note that the capability name
;; can be returned as either literal-s2c
;; or quoted, even though only "quoted"
;; string is shown above.
version = ( DQUOTE "1.0" DQUOTE ) / version-ext
version-ext = DQUOTE ver-major "." ver-minor DQUOTE
; Future versions specified in updates
; to this document. An increment to
; the ver-major means a backward-incompatible
; change to the protocol, e.g., "3.5" (ver-major "3")
; is not backward-compatible with any "2.X" version.
; Any version "Z.W" MUST be backward compatible
; with any version "Z.Q", where Q < W.
; For example, version "2.4" is backward compatible
; with version "2.0", "2.1", "2.2", and "2.3".
ver-major = number
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ver-minor = number
sasl-mechs = string
; Space-separated list of SASL mechanisms,
; each SASL mechanism name complies with rules
; specified in [SASL].
; Can be empty.
sieve-extensions = string
; Space-separated list of supported SIEVE extensions.
; Can be empty.
language = string
; Contains <Language-Tag> from [RFC5646].
notify-mechs = string
; Space-separated list of URI schema parts
; for supported notification [NOTIFY] methods.
; MUST NOT be empty.
response-deletescript = response-oknobye
response-getscript = (sieve-script CRLF response-ok) /
response-nobye
response-havespace = response-oknobye
response-listscripts = *(sieve-name [SP "ACTIVE"] CRLF)
response-oknobye
;; ACTIVE may only occur with one sieve-name
response-logout = response-oknobye
response-unauthenticate= response-oknobye
;; "NO" response can only be returned when
;; the command is issued in a wrong state
;; or has a wrong number of parameters
response-ok = "OK" [SP "(" resp-code ")"]
[SP string] CRLF
;; The string contains human-readable text
;; encoded as UTF-8.
response-nobye = ("NO" / "BYE") [SP "(" resp-code ")"]
[SP string] CRLF
;; The string contains human-readable text
;; encoded as UTF-8.
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response-oknobye = response-ok / response-nobye
response-noop = response-ok
response-putscript = response-oknobye
response-checkscript = response-oknobye
response-renamescript = response-oknobye
response-setactive = response-oknobye
response-starttls = (response-ok response-capability) /
response-nobye
sieve-name = string
;; See Section 1.6 for the full list of
;; prohibited characters.
;; Empty string is not allowed.
active-sieve-name = string
;; See Section 1.6 for the full list of
;; prohibited characters.
;; This is similar to <sieve-name>, but
;; empty string is allowed and has a special
;; meaning.
string = quoted / literal-c2s / literal-s2c
;; literal-c2s is only allowed when sent
;; from the client to the server.
;; literal-s2c is only allowed when sent
;; from the server to the client.
;; quoted is allowed in either direction.
5. Security Considerations
The AUTHENTICATE command uses SASL [SASL] to provide authentication
and authorization services. Integrity and privacy services can be
provided by [SASL] and/or [TLS]. When a SASL mechanism is used, the
security considerations for that mechanism apply.
This protocol's transactions are susceptible to passive observers or
man-in-the-middle attacks that alter the data, unless the optional
encryption and integrity services of the SASL (via the AUTHENTICATE
command) and/or [TLS] (via the STARTTLS command) are enabled, or an
external security mechanism is used for protection. It may be useful
to allow configuration of both clients and servers to refuse to
transfer sensitive information in the absence of strong encryption.
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If an implementation supports SASL mechanisms that are vulnerable to
passive eavesdropping attacks (such as [PLAIN]), then the
implementation MUST support at least one configuration where these
SASL mechanisms are not advertised or used without the presence of an
external security layer such as [TLS].
Some response codes returned on failed AUTHENTICATE command may
disclose whether or not the username is valid (e.g., TRANSITION-
NEEDED), so server implementations SHOULD provide the ability to
disable these features (or make them not conditional on a per-user
basis) for sites concerned about such disclosure. In the case of
ENCRYPT-NEEDED, if it is applied to all identities then no extra
information is disclosed, but if it is applied on a per-user basis it
can disclose information.
A compromised or malicious server can use the TRANSITION-NEEDED
response code to force the client that is configured to use a
mechanism that does not disclose the user's password to the server
(e.g., Kerberos), to send the bare password to the server. Clients
SHOULD have the ability to disable the password transition feature,
or disclose that risk to the user and offer the user an option of how
to proceed.
6. IANA Considerations
IANA has reserved TCP port number 4190 for use with the ManageSieve
protocol described in this document.
IANA has registered the "sieve" URI scheme defined in Section 3 of
this document.
IANA has registered "sieve" in the "GSSAPI/Kerberos/SASL Service
Names" registry.
IANA has created a new registry for ManageSieve capabilities. The
registration template for ManageSieve capabilities is specified in
Section 6.1. ManageSieve protocol capabilities MUST be specified in
a Standards-Track or IESG-approved Experimental RFC.
IANA has created a new registry for ManageSieve response codes. The
registration template for ManageSieve response codes is specified in
Section 6.3. ManageSieve protocol response codes MUST be specified
in a Standards-Track or IESG-approved Experimental RFC.
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6.1. ManageSieve Capability Registration Template
To: iana@iana.org
Subject: ManageSieve Capability Registration
Please register the following ManageSieve capability:
Capability name:
Description:
Relevant publications:
Person & email address to contact for further information:
Author/Change controller:
6.2. Registration of Initial ManageSieve Capabilities
To: iana@iana.org
Subject: ManageSieve Capability Registration
Please register the following ManageSieve capabilities:
Capability name: IMPLEMENTATION
Description: Its value contains the name of the server
implementation and its version.
Relevant publications: this RFC, Section 1.7.
Person & email address to contact for further information:
Alexey Melnikov <alexey.melnikov@isode.com>
Author/Change controller: IESG.
Capability name: SASL
Description: Its value contains a space-separated list of SASL
mechanisms supported by the server.
Relevant publications: this RFC, Sections 1.7 and 2.1.
Person & email address to contact for further information:
Alexey Melnikov <alexey.melnikov@isode.com>
Author/Change controller: IESG.
Capability name: SIEVE
Description: Its value contains a space-separated list of supported
SIEVE extensions.
Relevant publications: this RFC, Section 1.7. Also [SIEVE].
Person & email address to contact for further information:
Alexey Melnikov <alexey.melnikov@isode.com>
Author/Change controller: IESG.
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Capability name: STARTTLS
Description: This capability is returned if the server supports TLS
(STARTTLS command).
Relevant publications: this RFC, Sections 1.7 and 2.2.
Person & email address to contact for further information:
Alexey Melnikov <alexey.melnikov@isode.com>
Author/Change controller: IESG.
Capability name: NOTIFY
Description: This capability is returned if the server supports the
'enotify' [NOTIFY] Sieve extension.
Relevant publications: this RFC, Section 1.7.
Person & email address to contact for further information:
Alexey Melnikov <alexey.melnikov@isode.com>
Author/Change controller: IESG.
Capability name: MAXREDIRECTS
Description: This capability returns the limit on the number of
Sieve "redirect" actions a script can perform during a
single evaluation. The value is a non-negative number
represented as a ManageSieve string.
Relevant publications: this RFC, Section 1.7.
Person & email address to contact for further information:
Alexey Melnikov <alexey.melnikov@isode.com>
Author/Change controller: IESG.
Capability name: LANGUAGE
Description: The language (<Language-Tag> from [RFC5646]) currently
used for human-readable error messages.
Relevant publications: this RFC, Section 1.7.
Person & email address to contact for further information:
Alexey Melnikov <alexey.melnikov@isode.com>
Author/Change controller: IESG.
Capability name: OWNER
Description: Its value contains the UTF-8-encoded name of the
currently logged-in user ("authorization identity"
according to RFC 4422).
Relevant publications: this RFC, Section 1.7.
Person & email address to contact for further information:
Alexey Melnikov <alexey.melnikov@isode.com>
Author/Change controller: IESG.
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Capability name: VERSION
Description: This capability is returned if the server is compliant
with RFC 5804; i.e., that it supports RENAMESCRIPT,
CHECKSCRIPT, and NOOP commands.
Relevant publications: this RFC, Sections 2.11, 2.12, and 2.13.
Person & email address to contact for further information:
Alexey Melnikov <alexey.melnikov@isode.com>
Author/Change controller: IESG.
6.3. ManageSieve Response Code Registration Template
To: iana@iana.org
Subject: ManageSieve Response Code Registration
Please register the following ManageSieve response code:
Response Code:
Arguments (use ABNF to specify syntax, or the word NONE if none
can be specified):
Purpose:
Published Specification(s):
Person & email address to contact for further information:
Author/Change controller:
6.4. Registration of Initial ManageSieve Response Codes
To: iana@iana.org
Subject: ManageSieve Response Code Registration
Please register the following ManageSieve response codes:
Response Code: AUTH-TOO-WEAK
Arguments (use ABNF to specify syntax, or the word NONE if none can
be specified): NONE
Purpose: This response code is returned in the NO response from
an AUTHENTICATE command. It indicates that site
security policy forbids the use of the requested
mechanism for the specified authentication identity.
Published Specification(s): [RFC5804]
Person & email address to contact for further information:
Alexey Melnikov <alexey.melnikov@isode.com>
Author/Change controller: IESG.
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Response Code: ENCRYPT-NEEDED
Arguments (use ABNF to specify syntax, or the word NONE if none can
be specified): NONE
Purpose: This response code is returned in the NO response from
an AUTHENTICATE command. It indicates that site
security policy requires the use of a strong
encryption mechanism for the specified authentication
identity and mechanism.
Published Specification(s): [RFC5804]
Person & email address to contact for further information:
Alexey Melnikov <alexey.melnikov@isode.com>
Author/Change controller: IESG.
Response Code: QUOTA
Arguments (use ABNF to specify syntax, or the word NONE if none can
be specified): NONE
Purpose: If this response code is returned in the NO/BYE
response, it means that the command would have placed
the user above the site-defined quota constraints. If
this response code is returned in the OK response, it
can mean that the user is near its quota or that the
user exceeded its quota, but the server supports soft
quotas.
Published Specification(s): [RFC5804]
Person & email address to contact for further information:
Alexey Melnikov <alexey.melnikov@isode.com>
Author/Change controller: IESG.
Response Code: QUOTA/MAXSCRIPTS
Arguments (use ABNF to specify syntax, or the word NONE if none can
be specified): NONE
Purpose: If this response code is returned in the NO/BYE
response, it means that the command would have placed
the user above the site-defined limit on the number of
Sieve scripts. If this response code is returned in
the OK response, it can mean that the user is near its
quota or that the user exceeded its quota, but the
server supports soft quotas. This response code is a
more specific version of the QUOTA response code.
Published Specification(s): [RFC5804]
Person & email address to contact for further information:
Alexey Melnikov <alexey.melnikov@isode.com>
Author/Change controller: IESG.
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Response Code: QUOTA/MAXSIZE
Arguments (use ABNF to specify syntax, or the word NONE if none can
be specified): NONE
Purpose: If this response code is returned in the NO/BYE
response, it means that the command would have placed
the user above the site-defined maximum script size.
If this response code is returned in the OK response,
it can mean that the user is near its quota or that
the user exceeded its quota, but the server supports
soft quotas. This response code is a more specific
version of the QUOTA response code.
Published Specification(s): [RFC5804]
Person & email address to contact for further information:
Alexey Melnikov <alexey.melnikov@isode.com>
Author/Change controller: IESG.
Response Code: REFERRAL
Arguments (use ABNF to specify syntax, or the word NONE if none can
be specified): <sieveurl>
Purpose: This response code may be returned with a BYE result
from any command, and includes a mandatory parameter
that indicates what server to access to manage this
user's Sieve scripts. The server will be specified by
a Sieve URL (see Section 3). The scriptname portion
of the URL MUST NOT be specified. The client should
authenticate to the specified server and use it for
all further commands in the current session.
Published Specification(s): [RFC5804]
Person & email address to contact for further information:
Alexey Melnikov <alexey.melnikov@isode.com>
Author/Change controller: IESG.
Response Code: SASL
Arguments (use ABNF to specify syntax, or the word NONE if none can
be specified): <string>
Purpose: This response code can occur in the OK response to a
successful AUTHENTICATE command and includes the
optional final server response data from the server as
specified by [SASL].
Published Specification(s): [RFC5804]
Person & email address to contact for further information:
Alexey Melnikov <alexey.melnikov@isode.com>
Author/Change controller: IESG.
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Response Code: TRANSITION-NEEDED
Arguments (use ABNF to specify syntax, or the word NONE if none can
be specified): NONE
Purpose: This response code occurs in a NO response of an
AUTHENTICATE command. It indicates that the user name
is valid, but the entry in the authentication database
needs to be updated in order to permit authentication
with the specified mechanism. This is typically done
by establishing a secure channel using TLS, followed
by authenticating once using the [PLAIN]
authentication mechanism. The selected mechanism
SHOULD then work for authentications in subsequent
sessions.
Published Specification(s): [RFC5804]
Person & email address to contact for further information:
Alexey Melnikov <alexey.melnikov@isode.com>
Author/Change controller: IESG.
Response Code: TRYLATER
Arguments (use ABNF to specify syntax, or the word NONE if none can
be specified): NONE
Purpose: A command failed due to a temporary server failure.
The client MAY continue using local information and
try the command later. This response code only make
sense when returned in a NO/BYE response.
Published Specification(s): [RFC5804]
Person & email address to contact for further information:
Alexey Melnikov <alexey.melnikov@isode.com>
Author/Change controller: IESG.
Response Code: ACTIVE
Arguments (use ABNF to specify syntax, or the word NONE if none can
be specified): NONE
Purpose: A command failed because it is not allowed on the
active script, for example, DELETESCRIPT on the active
script. This response code only makes sense when
returned in a NO/BYE response.
Published Specification(s): [RFC5804]
Person & email address to contact for further information:
Alexey Melnikov <alexey.melnikov@isode.com>
Author/Change controller: IESG.
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Response Code: NONEXISTENT
Arguments (use ABNF to specify syntax, or the word NONE if none can
be specified): NONE
Purpose: A command failed because the referenced script name
doesn't exist. This response code only makes sense
when returned in a NO/BYE response.
Published Specification(s): [RFC5804]
Person & email address to contact for further information:
Alexey Melnikov <alexey.melnikov@isode.com>
Author/Change controller: IESG.
Response Code: ALREADYEXISTS
Arguments (use ABNF to specify syntax, or the word NONE if none can
be specified): NONE
Purpose: A command failed because the referenced script name
already exists. This response code only makes sense
when returned in a NO/BYE response.
Published Specification(s): [RFC5804]
Person & email address to contact for further information:
Alexey Melnikov <alexey.melnikov@isode.com>
Author/Change controller: IESG.
Response Code: WARNINGS
Arguments (use ABNF to specify syntax, or the word NONE if none can
be specified): NONE
Purpose: This response code MAY be returned by the server in
the OK response (but it might be returned with the NO/
BYE response as well) and signals the client that even
though the script is syntactically valid, it might
contain errors not intended by the script writer.
Published Specification(s): [RFC5804]
Person & email address to contact for further information:
Alexey Melnikov <alexey.melnikov@isode.com>
Author/Change controller: IESG.
Response Code: TAG
Arguments (use ABNF to specify syntax, or the word NONE if none can
be specified): string
Purpose: This response code name is followed by a string
specified in the command that caused this response.
It is typically used for client state synchronization.
Published Specification(s): [RFC5804]
Person & email address to contact for further information:
Alexey Melnikov <alexey.melnikov@isode.com>
Author/Change controller: IESG.
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7. Internationalization Considerations
The LANGUAGE capability (see Section 1.7) allows a client to discover
the current language used in all human-readable responses that might
be returned at the end of any OK/NO/BYE response. Human-readable
text in OK responses typically doesn't need to be shown to the user,
unless it is returned in response to a PUTSCRIPT or CHECKSCRIPT
command that also contains the WARNINGS response code (Section 1.3).
Human-readable text from NO/BYE responses is intended be shown to the
user, unless the client can automatically handle failure of the
command that caused such a response. Clients SHOULD use response
codes (Section 1.3) for automatic error handling. Response codes MAY
also be used by the client to present error messages in a language
understood by the user, for example, if the LANGUAGE capability
doesn't return a language understood by the user.
Note that the human-readable text from OK (WARNINGS) or NO/BYE
responses for PUTSCRIPT/CHECKSCRIPT commands is intended for advanced
users that understand Sieve language. Such advanced users are often
sophisticated enough to be able to handle whatever language the
server is using, even if it is not their preferred language, and will
want to see error/warning text no matter what language the server
puts it in.
A client that generates Sieve script automatically, for example, if
the script is generated without user intervention or from a UI that
presents an abstract list of conditions and corresponding actions,
SHOULD NOT present warning/error messages to the user, because the
user might not even be aware that the client is using Sieve
underneath. However, if the client has a debugging mode, such
warnings/errors SHOULD be available in the debugging mode.
Note that this document doesn't provide a way to modify the currently
used language. It is expected that a future extension will address
that.
8. Acknowledgements
Thanks to Simon Josefsson, Larry Greenfield, Allen Johnson, Chris
Newman, Lyndon Nerenberg, Tim Showalter, Sarah Robeson, Walter Wong,
Barry Leiba, Arnt Gulbrandsen, Stephan Bosch, Ken Murchison, Phil
Pennock, Ned Freed, Jeffrey Hutzelman, Mark E. Mallett, Dilyan
Palauzov, Dave Cridland, Aaron Stone, Robert Burrell Donkin, Patrick
Ben Koetter, Bjoern Hoehrmann, Martin Duerst, Pasi Eronen, Magnus
Westerlund, Tim Polk, and Julien Coloos for help with this document.
Special thank you to Phil Pennock for providing text for the NOOP
command, as well as finding various bugs in the document.
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9. References
9.1. Normative References
[ABNF] Crocker, D. and P. Overell, "Augmented BNF for Syntax
Specifications: ABNF", STD 68, RFC 5234, January 2008.
[ACAP] Newman, C. and J. Myers, "ACAP -- Application
Configuration Access Protocol", RFC 2244, November
1997.
[BASE64] Josefsson, S., "The Base16, Base32, and Base64 Data
Encodings", RFC 4648, October 2006.
[DNS-SRV] Gulbrandsen, A., Vixie, P., and L. Esibov, "A DNS RR
for specifying the location of services (DNS SRV)",
RFC 2782, February 2000.
[KEYWORDS] Bradner, S., "Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate
Requirement Levels", BCP 14, RFC 2119, March 1997.
[NET-UNICODE] Klensin, J. and M. Padlipsky, "Unicode Format for
Network Interchange", RFC 5198, March 2008.
[NOTIFY] Melnikov, A., Leiba, B., Segmuller, W., and T. Martin,
"Sieve Email Filtering: Extension for Notifications",
RFC 5435, January 2009.
[RFC2277] Alvestrand, H., "IETF Policy on Character Sets and
Languages", BCP 18, RFC 2277, January 1998.
[RFC2460] Deering, S. and R. Hinden, "Internet Protocol, Version
6 (IPv6) Specification", RFC 2460, December 1998.
[RFC3490] Faltstrom, P., Hoffman, P., and A. Costello,
"Internationalizing Domain Names in Applications
(IDNA)", RFC 3490, March 2003.
[RFC4519] Sciberras, A., "Lightweight Directory Access Protocol
(LDAP): Schema for User Applications", RFC 4519, June
2006.
[RFC5646] Phillips, A. and M. Davis, "Tags for Identifying
Languages", BCP 47, RFC 5646, September 2009.
[RFC791] Postel, J., "Internet Protocol", STD 5, RFC 791,
September 1981.
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[SASL] Melnikov, A. and K. Zeilenga, "Simple Authentication
and Security Layer (SASL)", RFC 4422, June 2006.
[SASLprep] Zeilenga, K., "SASLprep: Stringprep Profile for User
Names and Passwords", RFC 4013, February 2005.
[SCRAM] Menon-Sen, A., Melnikov, A., Newman, C., and N.
Williams, "Salted Challenge Response Authentication
Mechanism (SCRAM) SASL and GSS-API Mechanisms", RFC
5802, July 2010.
[SIEVE] Guenther, P. and T. Showalter, "Sieve: An Email
Filtering Language", RFC 5228, January 2008.
[StringPrep] Hoffman, P. and M. Blanchet, "Preparation of
Internationalized Strings ("stringprep")", RFC 3454,
December 2002.
[TLS] Dierks, T. and E. Rescorla, "The Transport Layer
Security (TLS) Protocol Version 1.2", RFC 5246, August
2008.
[URI-GEN] Berners-Lee, T., Fielding, R., and L. Masinter,
"Uniform Resource Identifier (URI): Generic Syntax",
STD 66, RFC 3986, January 2005.
[UTF-8] Yergeau, F., "UTF-8, a transformation format of ISO
10646", STD 63, RFC 3629, November 2003.
[X509] Cooper, D., Santesson, S., Farrell, S., Boeyen, S.,
Housley, R., and W. Polk, "Internet X.509 Public Key
Infrastructure Certificate and Certificate Revocation
List (CRL) Profile", RFC 5280, May 2008.
[X509-SRV] Santesson, S., "Internet X.509 Public Key
Infrastructure Subject Alternative Name for Expression
of Service Name", RFC 4985, August 2007.
9.2. Informative References
[DIGEST-MD5] Leach, P. and C. Newman, "Using Digest Authentication
as a SASL Mechanism", RFC 2831, May 2000.
[GSSAPI] Melnikov, A., "The Kerberos V5 ("GSSAPI") Simple
Authentication and Security Layer (SASL) Mechanism",
RFC 4752, November 2006.
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[I-HAVE] Freed, N., "Sieve Email Filtering: Ihave Extension",
RFC 5463, March 2009.
[IMAP] Crispin, M., "INTERNET MESSAGE ACCESS PROTOCOL -
VERSION 4rev1", RFC 3501, March 2003.
[LDAP] Zeilenga, K., "Lightweight Directory Access Protocol
(LDAP): Technical Specification Road Map", RFC 4510,
June 2006.
[PLAIN] Zeilenga, K., "The PLAIN Simple Authentication and
Security Layer (SASL) Mechanism", RFC 4616, August
2006.
Authors' Addresses
Alexey Melnikov (editor)
Isode Limited
5 Castle Business Village
36 Station Road
Hampton, Middlesex TW12 2BX
UK
EMail: Alexey.Melnikov@isode.com
Tim Martin
BeThereBeSquare, Inc.
672 Haight st.
San Francisco, CA 94117
USA
Phone: +1 510 260-4175
EMail: timmartin@alumni.cmu.edu
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