On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 10:59 AM, Jeroen van Meeuwen (Kolab Systems) <vanmeeu...@kolabsys.com> wrote: > On 2012-07-23 22:26, mailing list subscriber wrote: >> >> With all due respect, what is the development's team position >> regarding this feature and how do the development team see a solution >> that meets both requirements? >> > > Users will most likely continue to require write access to a script that > allows them to set what level of spam is to be filtered to a different > folder then one's INBOX, which addresses are on a whitelist, and whether or > not the vacation or out of office responses is active/de-active. > > If an organization wishes to enforce a particular script (with or without > particular settings, and with or without allowing the user some level of > editing), then it is (now) mostly some or the other management solution on > top of the Cyrus IMAP deployment that takes care of this level of > management. > > I'm curious to learn what exactly would be the set of requirements that > would enable a mandatory Sieve script feature to be integrated into Cyrus > IMAP; > > - Would setting a mandatory script implicitly disallow users to write > additional(?), new scripts?
no > Would this be Yet Another Setting? yes > Would Cyrus > IMAP magically adjust any user-uploaded scripts to conform with the > mandatory script policy? no > > - Would a script (if it were read-only for the user) read settings from a > location not Cyrus IMAP, such as the proverbial boolean "Yes I am > out-of-office" and/or "my vacation lasts until $x"? no > > - How many Sieve editing clients would remain compatible / could become > compatible with such Sieve semantics? Please allow me to shamelessly plug > some thoughts from Kolab[1] here, that relate to but are not entirely in the > same realm. script would be completely invisible to the clients/end user. please see the patch in the links I have mentioned. it would just run a rule before the user rules kicks in, then the user bytecode would do whatever they want on the same message.
