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| <properties> |
| <title>Overview</title> |
| <author email="jsieve-dev@jakarta.apache.org">jSieve Project</author> |
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| <body> |
| <section name="What is jSieve?"> |
| <p> |
| jSieve is a Java implementation of the Sieve mail filtering language defined by |
| <a href='http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc3028.txt'>RFC 3028</a>. jSieve is implemented |
| as a language processor that can be plugged into any internet mail application to add |
| Sieve support. |
| </p> |
| <p> |
| jSieve is a subproject of <a href='http://james.apache.org'>Apache JAMES</a>. |
| All who are interested in developing jSieve and JAMES will be warmly |
| welcomed on the <a href='mail-lists.html'>mailing lists</a>. |
| </p> |
| <subsection name='What is Sieve?'> |
| <p> |
| Sieve is an extensible mail filtering language. It's limited expressiveness (no loops |
| or variables, no tests with side effects) allows user created scripts to be run |
| safely on email servers. Sieve is targeted at the final delivery phase |
| (where an incoming email is transferred to a user's mailbox). |
| </p> |
| <p> |
| Sieve scripts are composed of commands. Control commands manage the execution of the script. |
| Test commands define side-effect free criteria. |
| Action commands are mail operations to be performed. |
| </p> |
| |
| </subsection> |
| </section> |
| </body> |
| </document> |
