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+This is sieve-connect. A client for the ManageSieve protocol, as specifed in
+RFC 5804. Historically, this was MANAGESIEVE as implemented by timsieved in
+Cyrus IMAP.
+
+This is not yet fully compatible with RFC 5804, but is moving towards that from
+the timsieved baseline; some issues to be worked on are documented in the
+"TODO" file.
+
+sieve-connect speaks ManageSieve and supports TLS for connection privacy and
+also authentication if using client certificates. sieve-connect will use SASL
+authentication; SASL integrity layers are not supported, use TLS instead.
+GSSAPI-based authentication should generally work, provided that client and
+server can use a common underlaying protocol. If it doesn't work for you,
+please report the issue.
+
+sieve-connect is designed to be both a tool which can be invoked from scripts
+and also a decent interactive client. It should also be a drop-in replacement
+for "sieveshell", as supplied with Cyrus IMAP.
+
+WWW: http://people.spodhuis.org/phil.pennock/software/