sifter 0.1

Parser/evaluator for the Sieve filtering language (RFC 5228)

Python implementation of the Sieve email filtering language (RFC 5228).

https://github.com/garyp/sifter

FEATURES

• Supports all of the base Sieve spec from RFC 5228, except for features still listed under TODO below

• Extensions supported:

  • regex (draft-ietf-sieve-regex-01)

EXAMPLE

import email
import sifter.parser
rules = sifter.parser.parse_file(open('my_rules.sieve'))
msg = email.message_from_file(open('an_email_to_me.eml'))
msg_actions = rules.evaluate(msg)

In the above example, msg_actions is a list of actions to apply to the email message. Each action is a tuple consisting of the action name and action-specific arguments. It is up to the caller to manipulate the message and message store based on the actions returned.

WARNINGS

• No thought has been given yet to hardening against malicious user input. The current implementation is aimed at users that are running their own sieve scripts.

• The current implementation is not optimized for performance, though hopefully it’s not too slow for normal inputs.

TODO

In rough order of importance:

• An example adaptor that provides Unix LDA behavior using sieve for filtering

• Base spec features not yet implemented:

  • encoded characters (section 2.4.2.4)

  • multi-line strings (section 2.4.2)

  • bracketed comments (section 2.3)

  • message uniqueness (section 2.10.3)

  • envelope test (section 5.4)

  • handle message loops (section 10)

  • limit abuse of redirect action (section 10)

  • address test should limit allowed headers to those that contain addresses (section 5.1)

• Make sure character sets are actually handled according to the spec

• Make string parsing comply with the grammar in section 8.1 and the features described in section 2.4.2

• Check that python’s email.message implements header comparisons the same way as the sieve spec

• Make sure regular expressions are actually handled according to the extension spec

• Add support for various extensions:

  • variables (RFC 5229)

  • externally stored lists (draft-melnikov-sieve-external-lists)

  • body (RFC 5173)

  • relational (RFC 5231)

  • subaddress (RFC 5233)

  • copy (RFC 3894)

  • environment (RFC 5183)

  • date and index (RFC 5260)

  • editheader (RFC 5293)

  • ihave (RFC 5463)

  • mailbox metadata (RFC 5490)

  • notifications (RFC 5435), mailto notifications (RFC 5436), xmpp notifications (RFC 5437)