The IESG has approved the Internet-Draft 'Sieve: A Mail Filtering Language' <draft-showalter-sieve-12.txt> as a Proposed Standard. This has been reviewed in the IETF but is not the product of an IETF Working Group. The IESG contact persons are Patrik Faltstrom and Ned Freed. Technical Summary This document describes a language for filtering e-mail messages at time of final delivery. It is designed to be implementable on either a mail client or mail server. It is meant to be extensible, simple, and independent of access protocol, mail architecture, and operating system. It is suitable for running on a mail server where users may not be allowed to execute arbitrary programs, such as on black box IMAP servers, as it has no variables, loops, or ability to shell out to external programs. Working Group Summary Discussions about this memo has occurred on the [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list as well at several BOFs at IETF meetings. Protocol Quality Ned Freed has reviewed the specification for the IESG. Note to the RFC Editor Please remove the capitalized CAN in section 1.1; it isn't defined in RFC 2119 and isn't used in this document.
