Re: troubleshooting sieve

2002-02-13 Thread Jim Levie
On Fri, 2002-02-01 at 08:33, Earl R Shannon wrote: > Hello, > > You have found what may be the biggest problems with free software. > Documentation and Support. Sysadmins such as myself must take these > issues into account when deciding upon a platform to use for delivery > of services such as e

Re: troubleshooting sieve

2002-02-13 Thread Erik Steffl
Lawrence Greenfield wrote: > >Date: Sun, 10 Feb 2002 17:20:03 -0800 >From: Erik Steffl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > [...] >> We currently use yacc (or bison) to parse Sieve scripts; the bytecode >> work isn't currently expected to change this. We basically report the >> parse errors

Re: troubleshooting sieve

2002-02-13 Thread Earl R Shannon
Hello, You have found what may be the biggest problems with free software. Documentation and Support. Sysadmins such as myself must take these issues into account when deciding upon a platform to use for delivery of services such as email. Using a package such as Cyrus requires a somewhat higher

Re: troubleshooting sieve

2002-02-11 Thread Amos Gouaux
> On Sun, 10 Feb 2002 22:06:30 -0500, > Lawrence Greenfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (lg) writes: lg> Sieve's formal grammar is not particularly difficult; it really isn't lg> very hard to write a program that correctly generates scripts. Speaking of which, I don't suppose anybody has done a

Re: troubleshooting sieve

2002-02-10 Thread Lawrence Greenfield
Date: Sun, 10 Feb 2002 17:20:03 -0800 From: Erik Steffl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [...] > We currently use yacc (or bison) to parse Sieve scripts; the bytecode > work isn't currently expected to change this. We basically report the > parse errors that Yacc gives us. it often does r

Re: troubleshooting sieve

2002-02-10 Thread Erik Steffl
Lawrence Greenfield wrote: > >From: Amos Gouaux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Date: Sat, 09 Feb 2002 09:01:15 -0600 > [...] >I believe there is activity going on at CMU to create a byte >compiler for Sieve scripts. Perhaps that will be a bit more verbose >about script errors. > > We

Re: troubleshooting sieve

2002-02-10 Thread Lawrence Greenfield
From: Amos Gouaux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Sat, 09 Feb 2002 09:01:15 -0600 [...] I believe there is activity going on at CMU to create a byte compiler for Sieve scripts. Perhaps that will be a bit more verbose about script errors. We currently use yacc (or bison) to parse Sieve s

Re: troubleshooting sieve

2002-02-10 Thread Erik Steffl
Amos Gouaux wrote: > > > On Fri, 01 Feb 2002 01:00:22 -0800, > > Erik Steffl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (es) writes: > > es> Q: how do other people cope with troubleshooting problems of cyrus > es> (and mainly sieve)? Are there any tools that I am not aware of? Is it > es> getting better (the

Re: troubleshooting sieve

2002-02-09 Thread Amos Gouaux
> On Fri, 01 Feb 2002 01:00:22 -0800, > Erik Steffl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (es) writes: es> Q: how do other people cope with troubleshooting problems of cyrus es> (and mainly sieve)? Are there any tools that I am not aware of? Is it es> getting better (the above is with older cyrus/sieve (

troubleshooting sieve

2002-02-01 Thread Erik Steffl
cyrus and related programs are some of the hardest programs to troubleshoot I ever encountered. I read the docs, asked on the mailing list (this one) etc. but it seems like there's simply no way to tell what's going on. I enabled all the logging, I even tried test (from sieve directory of cyrus