On Fri, Feb 10, 2006 at 01:00:45PM -0800, Andrew Burke wrote: > 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.
More usually you would integrate Sieve with your MTA, so that filtering is done at the time when an incoming message is delivered into the mailbox, not when the mailbox is opened. Then all different clients (POP3, IMAP, Webmail etc) will benefit from the same filtering. You can do this already with Exim (it has Sieve filtering built in), and probably with other MTAs. > 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. There *is* a protocol by which a mail client can upload Sieve filters - it's called "managesieve" http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-martin-managesieve-06.txt But the mail client has to implement it of course, and I don't know which ones do. A google search suggests that at least Mulberry does. Otherwise you'd need some other way to create and upload Sieve filters, e.g. a web interface or FTP upload. > 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. Indeed. That's why it's not necessarily a good idea not to integrate Sieve with IMAP only, but to have a protocol-neutral way to upload and manage Sieve filters. Regards, Brian. ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=103432&bid=230486&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Courier-imap mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/courier-imap
