I'm not sure if this is the right forum for this question, so forgive me
if this has been discussed before and I missed it in the archives.
I've seen some things on imap and server side filtering. I'm wondering
if there has been any discussion of integrating Sieve
(http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3028.txt) scripts with the IMAP protocol.
It seems like a nice feature for users who use different clients (win32,
pda, web) to access their email would be to provide some easy way to
configure server-side filtering.
How would the average user want to interact with such a system?
Probably via prompting initially, eventually leading to explicit setup
in their email client. That is, for example, when they receive a new
email with a list-id in the header, their client (Thunderbird, for
instance) might throw a bar across the top of the message that says
something along the lines of 'Hey, it looks like you're subscribed to a
mailing list. Would you like to send messages that come from this list
to a different folder automatically?' That's great, we could even do
that on the client side without any changes to IMAP. However, it's not
so great if the user accesses their email via multiple clients, such as
a webmail app when they're on the road.
If, however, there were support for configuring Sieve server-side
filtering built into the IMAP protocol (and by extension, servers and
clients), all this could become consistent across clients for the user.
I assume this may have been discussed before and I would love to be
directed to any relevant discussions. I'm curious about how the courier
community views the concept of integrating Sieve scripts into the server
and possibly extending the IMAP protocol to allow configuration of said
scripts.
Andy
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