parse roundcube managesieve plugin comments

[chongma]

When editing rules using roundcube managesieve plugin it puts the rule names at the top of each rule in the format, e.g

# rule:[job]
if anyof (header :contains "from" "noreply@domain.tld")
{
	fileinto "Job";
}

Is there any way to preserve that format? And also if possible to search by the rule name?

[chongma]

Hi, can anyone help me use this lib?

[tonioo]

@chongma This library was not designed to read Roundcube generated files.

[chongma]

@tonioo Roundcube and sieve are quite popular have you considered adding support?

[helmut2]

A sightly more general question: Is there a way to retain the comments of an input file in the output? I've just started to look at sievelib and ran "python parser.py -v --tosieve somefile.sieve", which removed all comments. Do I overlook some option or is it necessarily so?

[chongma]

@helmut2 thanks this is what i was really asking. if there is some way to retain the comments. and better still to generate comments in the output.

[sambrightman]

FiltersSet takes two optional arguments, for the name and description format. I am using:

fs = FiltersSet('roundcube', '# rule:')
fs.from_parser_result(p)

where p is the parser I used on the script text. fs.tosieve() will then write these comments out. It looks like it should also work when constructing a FiltersSet without a parser.