On Jun 19, 2013, at 1:00 AM, Steffen Kaiser <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, 14 Jun 2013, Frerich Raabe wrote: >> I then usually just run the sieve-test binary (part of the Pigeonhole >> distribution) and send them the output. However, I was wondering - is there >> maybe a way for them to try it themselves? Like, maybe a tiny web server >> which just prints a form asking for a mail file and a sieve script, and then >> it runs sieve-script and prints the output of that? I wonder how other >> people do that. > > you are not referring to syntax errors, do you? > > Otherwise, this seems to be a nice idea to let users actually _test_ their > scripts. However, I wonder how educated they are, in order to paste in a > correct "mail file" incl. header and the like.
Better would be to let them submit a message from a folder, or all messages in a folder. I.e., "run Sieve on folder 'TestSieve'", then users can just drag messages there and test it (or, if I had that functionality, copy them). Just a thought. Sean
