DBMAIL-SIEVED(8)

📦 version 3.5.6, in arch rolling

💌 dbmail-sieved — the Manage Sieve daemon, bestie edition 💌

okay so picture this: it's DBMAIL-SIEVED(8), the Manage Sieve daemon, and its whole ~thing~ is managing Sieve scripts for a user's email account. that's it, that's the job. she's iconic, she's focused, she's literally just here to handle your Sieve scripts. 💅

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

dbmail-sieved [common options]
dbmail-sieved [common options] --no-daemon
dbmail-sieved [common options] --inetd

three whole modes, pick your fighter 🫶

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

so the dbmail-sieved process listens, by default, on port 2000 of the localhost interface. that's the vibe check. no cap. ✨

🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

  • -p, --pidfile pidfile — want your pid file somewhere else? say less, this is how. by default the daemons use dbmail-<daemon>.pid for their pid files, saving them in the directory specified by the pid_directory entry in dbmail.conf — or, if that doesn't exist, the value set by the configuration option --localstatedir. and she will halt if the pid file cannot be written, so don't play with her like that 😭. use the -p pidfile option to place the pid file in your system's preferred location.
  • -n, --no-daemon — no daemonize, it's inetd mode babes. the program stays attached to the console it was started from and will read and write on stdin/stdout. lowkey perfect for debugging when you combine it with the -v option. also used for running from (x)inetd. 🦋
  • -D, --inetd — no daemonize again, but different flavor: the program remains attached to the console and will listen on the network sockets defined in dbmail.conf. mostly used for xinetd (Extended Internet Service Daemon). she contains multitudes 💜

💖 COMMON OPTIONS 💖

  • -f, --config configfile — specify an alternate config file. use dbmail-<utility> --help to show the default location. (yes bestie, that's where the default lives, go look 👀)
  • -q, --quiet — quietly skip interactive prompts and helpful status messages which would otherwise be printed to stdout. use two -q's to silence errors which would otherwise be printed to stderr. double quiet = double slay 🔥
  • -v, --verbose — operate verbosely. some of the utilities in the DBMail suite can take two -v's for extra verbosity. those which don't understand this convention won't complain about having the extra -v and will simply operate at their normal verbosity. so polite of them ngl 🧚
  • -V, --version — show the version and copyright, then exit. bye bestie 👋
  • -h, --help — show a brief summary of options, then exit. the classic. 🎀

🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

dbmail(1), dbmail.conf(5), dbmail-deliver(1), dbmail-export(8), dbmail-httpd(8), dbmail-imapd(8), dbmail-lmtpd(8), dbmail-pop3d(8), dbmail-sieved(8), dbmail-sievecmd(8), dbmail-users(8), dbmail-util(8)

(that's the whole friend group, they all show up 💖)

💀 BUGS 💀

  • for the latest announcements, please subscribe to the DBMail announce mailing list[1]
  • for general discussion, please subscribe to the DBMail general mailing list[2]
  • if you experience an issue with DBMail, please report it on the DBMail Bug Tracker[3]. it may be helpful to have a debug log available. 🙈

👑 LICENSE 👑

DBMail and its components are distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License Version 2. Copyrights are held variously by the authors listed below. (respect the license fr fr, she's not asking 📜)

🌈 AUTHOR(S) 🌈

DBMail is a collaborative effort among the core developers listed below and the tremendous help of the testers, patchers and bug hunters listed in the AUTHORS and THANKS files found in the DBMail source distribution. (shoutout to everyone behind the scenes, main character energy from all of you 🫶)

⭐ AUTHOR ⭐

Alan Hicks <ahicks@p-o.co.uk>

  • Author.

🍓 NOTES 🍓

  1. DBMail announce mailing list https://dbmail.org/wws/info/dbmail-announce/
  2. DBMail general mailing list https://dbmail.org/wws/info/dbmail-general/
  3. DBMail Bug Tracker https://github.com/dbmail/dbmail/issues

k that's the whole page!! one last thing before you go — the version/date stamp on this bad girl is 08/28/2026, and the manual tag is DBMAIL-SIEVED(8). go manage some Sieve scripts bestie, you're gonna ate 💅✨🎀

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