Re: Sieve scripts editor

[Jesse Thompson]

One of the things that annoyed me about squirrel's plugin sieve editor, avelsieve, is that it only supports Cyrus and "Tim's Sieve daemon".

Josh King wrote:

On Wed, 19 Apr 2006 7:49:57 -0500, phil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

On Wed, 19 Apr 2006 12:16:45 +0100, Alex Pimperton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:

David Collantes wrote:

All is needed is, knowledge of PHP and the way Cyrus or Corrier IMAP

works (Siege is those IMAP servers unique feature, right?).

Seive is also available as part of Exim (MTA), Dovecot (IMAP Server) and
a collection of other software. (http://www.fastmail.fm/docs/sieve/)

If I was a php expert I'm sure I could knock up an interface that did
the job and cleanly integrated into Roundcube without problems.

Unfortunately I'm not a php expert and I suspect that most people that
use Roundcube aren't either.

I don't think it should be part of RoundCube. Let's keep it clean and

simple.

Obviously peoples opinions are going to vary over what is needed and
what isn't in Roundcube. How about a plugin system?

I think this is the way it will need to be done, as not to cloud the main
core of RC

I personally think that there is no current easy way for end users to
set up server side mail filtering rules (like you can with Microsft
Exchange) and that being able to add these types of filters is essential

.

absolutely, that and spelling are the only things I think RC needs.

If you look at "competing" products, they all have a filtering
plugin/module as it's unreasonable to expect users to login to the shell
and edit their .procmailrc/sieve script directly.

agreed, however rememeber many of those just do client side filtering,
when I first started using Squirel that's how I ran it, after my mail
folders started getting big refreshing got slower and slower.  so some
sort of simple front end to handle sieve would be the way to go.

throw my vote for a script that could handle either sieve or procmail
(what I use).  I'm comfortable writing my own procmailrc but know there
are plugins out there that do this for you.  as I mentioned I used to use
Squirrel -- they have plugins that do just that and it's in php, let's
look at one of their plugins for the backend -- once that's done having
someone write up the front/client side would be easy.

I know this has been discussed before (the whole RC vs server-side filtering 
thing), and usually has lead to the plugin idea being brought about as a way to 
make everyone happy. Is anyone working on implementing an API or such for 
writing plugins?

I would be willing to lend my (meager) skills to help out.

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