CLAWS-MAIL-MANAGESIEVE(7)

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version 4.4.0 · 6 versions
, in ubuntu stonking

💖 claws-mail-managesieve — the plug-in that handles your Sieve filters 💖

okay bestie, this is the manual page for the claws-mail-managesieve thing. it lives in the claws-mail-managesieve package and it's documented as section 7 of the Claws Mail manuals. sit down, hydrate, let's go. 🫶

✨ NAME ✨

claws-mail-managesieve — manage scripts on Sieve-compliant servers 💅

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

so this manual page documents, briefly, the claws-mail-managesieve package. that's it, that's the overview.

quick lore drop: this manual page was written for the Debian™ distribution because the original program does not have a manual page. we were like "no manual? not on my watch." 😭

claws-mail-managesieve is a plugin (loadable module, iykyk) for the Claws Mail mailer.

what does it do though? okay so — it provides an interface for managing Sieve filters. those filters are used for filtering mail on mail servers, usually with an IMAP account. emphasis on server-side, bestie, it's not doing this on your laptop.

and specifically, this plugin lets you manage those Sieve filters:

  • creating them ✨
  • editing them ✨
  • deleting them ✨
  • checking their syntax ✨

main character energy honestly.

⚠️ real talk: no facilities for script development are provided. so you need to know the Sieve language to create filters, or to make non-trivial modifications to existing ones. see the references below — go read them, fr fr.

🎀 USAGE 🎀

before you can use a plugin, you must instruct Claws Mail to load it on startup. it's not gonna just show up on its own, it's not that kind of girl.

here's the whole ritual:

  1. go to the “Configuration” menu on the main window toolbar
  2. open the “Plugins...” dialog
  3. click on the “Load plugin...” button
  4. select the plugin file, named managesieve.so
  5. press the “Open” button

done. slay. 💅

next up: Sieve must be enabled and configured on each account where you plan to use it. so go to the “Configuration” menu and open “Preferences for current account...” — or “Edit accounts...” if you're configuring a different one.

when the account preferences are shown, you can configure Sieve by opening the “Plugins/Sieve” page. 🌈

and once some account is configured, you can use the “Manage Sieve Filters...” dialog option from the “Tools” menu. that's the whole flow, go off. 👑

🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

💜 AUTHORS 💜

  • Charles Lehner <charles@claws-mail.org> — wrote the claws-mail-managesieve plugin. icon.
  • Ricardo Mones <mones@debian.org> — wrote this manpage for the Debian™ system. legend.

Copyright © 2015-2020 Ricardo Mones

This manual page was written for the Debian system (but may be used by others).

Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU General Public License, Version 3 or (at your option) any later version published by the Free Software Foundation.

On Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU General Public License can be found in /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL.

okay and that's the whole page, bestie!! this was version 4.4.0-1build1, dated 2026-08-21, and it's Claws Mail's very own CLAWS-MAIL-MANAGESIEVE(7). mwah 💋 go filter some mail, you got this 🧚‍♀️💖

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