On Thu, 10 Jan 2008 18:19:10 +0100, "emi delg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi Javier!!
> The simpler filters UI is testable at https://mail.cio.cat with same user
> and passwd.
> May be we can add both UIs and let the user/admin decide whether to use
> one
> or the other.
>
> About the backend, it's a bash script that takes all filters objects and
> translates them to the server specific filtering system (maildrop, sieve,
> exim, ...). That script have to be run by the mail admin, who'll place the
> output into the files used by the filtering system.
That sounds labor intensive. :(
>
> May be we can create an admin entrance to be able to configure RC from the
> web, and also take the files from filters, etc.
This sounds like a smarter approach. Perhaps the best solution would be to allow
the admin to decide which filtering type is available to the end users - eg;
maildrop, sieve, exim...
Because that's really all that needs to be required. That way the right rules
will be created for the server it's running on/ talking to.
>
> 2008/1/10, J. Javier Maestro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>>
>> On Jan Thu 10 2008 17:04, till wrote:
>> > On Jan 10, 2008 4:52 PM, emi delg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> >
>> > Pretty interesting. Good idea to use icons. Of course the icons should
>> > "match" the theme a tad better, but generally why not. Wonder what
>> > others think.
>>
>> I find it pretty cool :) In any case, I would first do a "text-based"
>> filter
>> UI, "a la gmail", where creating filters by form-filling is easy too.
>>
>>
>> Now, since I am new to the list and I haven't had the time yet to check
>> all
>> the mail archive, I might be talking out of my ass here; if so, simply
>> skip
>> the mail to the end, please 8)
>>
>> This is a UI, so I guess there must be a backend. However, I don't think
>> that
>> RC should do any mail filtering. It should allow to *manage* filtering
>> rules
>> stored in (and used by) the mail server, "a la maildrop" filters, where
>> manage would mean create too, of course.
>>
>> But, again, I think this should be done through RPC, by using some web
>> service that controls the mail server, filter creation, etc. This way,
> RC
>> would manage/create/delete filters and send the manage/create/delete
>> petition
>> to the RPC server that would actually apply it to the user's mail flow,
>> etc.
>>
>>
>> In any case, your work is a cool, awesome idea :D :D
>>
>> My 2 cents!
>>
>> --
>> J. Javier Maestro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> Socio Consultor - Nosys AJjV S.L.
>>
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