Brief overview of Sieve language elements

For convenience, Sieve language elements provides a tabular overview of Sieve language elements, grouped into:

 Control structures, 

 Actions, 

 Tests, 

 Functions, 

 Values, 

 ADDRESS-PARTS, 

 BODY-TRANSFORMS, 

 COMPARATORS, 

 DATE-PARTS, </li>

 ENVELOPE-PARTS, </li>

 ENVIRONMENT-ITEMS, </li>

 MATCH-TYPES, and </li>

 MIMEOPTS. </li>

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Sieve language elements summarizes the basic Sieve language elements (but not the subelements that are standard under an element), plus any supported  extension elements and extension subelements. For full descriptions of Sieve language elements, see the referenced RFCs and drafts. In Table of Sieve language elements,  arguments/values are shown in italics, optional  elements are enclosed in square brackets (&#x5b;&#x5d;), choices are enclosed in  angle brackets (&#x3c;&#x3e;) with the distinct choices separated by the forward slash character (/), default choices are shown in bold type, and  optional repetition of an element is indicated with the asterisk  character.

<span id='Sieve_lang_table_footnote1'> +Only displayed in    if executing process has "world" privilege

<span id='Sieve_lang_table_footnote2'> ++Prior to MS 6.2, only permitted in system-level Sieves; nowadays  supported in arbitrary Sieves

See also:
 * Sieve supported extensions
 * Sieve language