Download & Installation
Instructions for Windows Users
managesieve requires Python. If you don’t have Python installed already, download and install Python 3.12 from https://python.org/download/3.12/
During installation, make sure to check “Include into PATH”.
If you already have Python installed, please check that your Python directory (normally
C:Python312
for Python 3.12) and the Python Scripts directory (normallyC:Python312Scripts
) are in the system path. If not, just add them in to thePath
system variable.Install managesieve by running
pip install managesieve
Then run the console command
sieveshell --help
to get detailed help.If the command
pip
is unknown to you system, please refer to the pip installation instructions for help.
Instructions for GNU/Linux and other Operating Systems
Most current GNU/Linux distributions provide packages for Python. Simply search your distribution’s software catalog.
Also many other vendors provide Python, and some even provide managesieve. Please check your vendor’s software repository.
If your distribution or vendor does not provide a current version of managesieve please read on.
If your vendor does not provide python please download Python 3.12 from https://www.python.org/download/ and follow the installation instructions there.
If you distribution or vendor missed providing pip, alongside python, please check your vendor’s or distribution’s software repository for a package called pip or python-pip. If this is not provided, please refer to the pip installation instructions for help.
Then continue with Installing managesieve using pip below.
Installing managesieve using pip
After installing Python just run:
sudo pip install managesieve
to install managesieve for all users. For installing managesieve for yourself only, run:
pip install --user managesieve
If your system does not have network access download managesieve from https://pypi.org/project/managesieve/, and run
sudo pip install managesieve-*.tar.gz
respective
pip install --user managesieve-*.tar.gz