RFE: dovecot -- add +sieve variant

[boeyms@…]

The attached patch adds support for the SIEVE mail filtering language to the dovecot port, as provided by the dovecot project. It is, unfortunately, a rather ugly patch, since the dovecot-sieve sources expect to be built against the built dovecot sources in the locations in which they are built in the dovecot ${worksrcdir}, and with dovecot's ${worksrcdir} as a neighbour to that of dovecot-sieve (i.e. with both having the same parent dir). It'd be nicer to be able to avoid this mess, but the only alternative I can see is to hack dovecot-sieve's configure and Makefiles, and that looks to me to be much worse.

The attached patch is intended to be applied with -p0 from trunk/dports.

[boeyms@…]

Patch to add +sieve variant to dovecot

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Milestone Port Enhancements deleted

[homerbrew@…]

Any chance we could get this or something similar added to the Dovecot port? It is a pain to keep manually patching and recompiling Dovecot each time a new version gets installed and breaks my Sieve scripts.

[jmroot (Joshua Root)]

I'd guess the dovecot2-sieve port covers this need now. If not, please feel free to reopen and explain why.