Sieve Environment Items

Created
2008-05-01
Last Updated
2015-01-22
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Sieve Environment Items

Reference
[RFC 5183]
Note
The specifics of this registry are given in Section 4.3.
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Range Registration Procedures
name begins with "vnd." First Come First Served
standardized (no "vnd." prefix) Standards track or experimental RFC
Capability name Description RFC number Contact address
domain The primary DNS domain associated with the Sieve execution context, usually but not always a proper suffix of the host name. [RFC 5183] [The_Sieve_discussion_list]
host The fully-qualified domain name of the host where the Sieve script is executing. [RFC 5183] [The_Sieve_discussion_list]
imap.changedflags If the script was invoked because of flag changes to an existing message, this contains the name(s) of the flag(s) that have changed. Otherwise, the value of this item MUST be the empty string. [RFC 6785] [The_Sieve_discussion_list]
imap.cause The name of the action that caused the script to be invoked. Its value is one of the following: APPEND (for invocations resulting from APPEND commands), COPY (for invocations resulting from COPY commands), or FLAG (for invocations resulting from flag changes). [RFC 6785] [The_Sieve_discussion_list]
imap.email The primary email address of the IMAP user that caused the action (the user identified by "imap.user"). [RFC 6785] [The_Sieve_discussion_list]
imap.mailbox The name of the mailbox that the affected message is in, in the case of existing messages, or is targeted to be stored into, in the case of new messages. The value of this item is fixed when the script begins, and, in particular, MUST NOT change as a result of any action, such as "fileinto". [RFC 6785] [The_Sieve_discussion_list]
imap.user The identity (IMAP login ID) of the IMAP user that caused the action. [RFC 6785] [The_Sieve_discussion_list]
location Type of service executing the Sieve script. [RFC 5183] [The_Sieve_discussion_list]
name The product name associated with the Sieve interpreter. [RFC 5183] [The_Sieve_discussion_list]
phase Point relative to final delivery at which the Sieve script is being evaluated. [RFC 5183] [The_Sieve_discussion_list]
remote-host Host name of remote SMTP client, if applicable and available. [RFC 5183] [The_Sieve_discussion_list]
remote-ip IP address of remote SMTP client, if applicable and available. [RFC 5183] [The_Sieve_discussion_list]
version The product version associated with the Sieve interpreter. [RFC 5183] [The_Sieve_discussion_list]
vnd.dovecot.* (anything starting with "vnd.dovecot.") An environment item specific to the Dovecot Secure IMAP server [http://www.dovecot.org]. [Stephan_Bosch][Timo_Sirainen]

Contact Information

ID Name Contact URI Last Updated
[Stephan_Bosch] Stephan Bosch mailto:stephan&rename-it.nl
[The_Sieve_discussion_list] The Sieve discussion list mailto:sieve&ietf.org
[Timo_Sirainen] Timo Sirainen mailto:tss&iki.fi