SIEVEC(8)

💅 SIEVEC(8) — Cyrus IMAP

okay bestie, so this one lives in the Cyrus IMAP manual, section 8, and it's genuinely the glow-up station for your mail filters. welcome to sievec 🦋

🌸 NAME

sievec — Cyrus IMAP documentation ✨

She's the script that compiles a sieve script into bytecode. that's it, that's the whole job. she takes your cute human-readable sieve and turns it into the crunchy machine snack that the server actually eats. 🔥

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🎀 SYNOPSIS

sievec [ -C altconfig ] filename outputfile

yeah that's the whole vibe. two positional friends and one optional flag. no cap.

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👑 DESCRIPTION

Bestie, here's the tea: sievec compiles the given script that's sitting at filename, turning it into bytecode, and then writes that file over to the outputfile location. 📝➡️⚙️

so like: script goes in, bytecode comes out, nobody gets hurt. periodt.

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✨ OPTIONS ✨

• -C altconfig — use the specified configuration file config-file instead of the default imapd.conf(5). it's giving "i brought my own config, thanks" 💅

ngl there is exactly one option here and she is doing her best. respect her.

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🫶 SEE ALSO

• masssievec(8)
• sieved(8)

go say hi to the whole friend group, they're all in this together 🌈

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💖 AUTHOR

The Cyrus Team 👑

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🎀 COPYRIGHT

1993–2026, The Cyrus Team ⭐

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and that's the whole page bestie, you ate 💅✨ this iconic lil entry is from Cyrus IMAP version 3.12.3, dated Jul 15, 2026. mwah, go compile something cute 🌸🦋