Ned Freed wrote:
> This actually isn't true. Some Sieve implementations, including ours, operate
>  before final delivery. (Usually just before.) Others operate just after. And
> in the imap-sieve case there is now a situation where Sieve can be executate
> LONG after final delivery.

Indeed.


and FYI:

    <http://bbiw.net/specifications/draft-crocker-email-arch-10.html>

> Figure 5 shows a Sieve specification going from the rMUA to the MDA. However
> filtering can be done at many different points along the transit path and any
> one or more of them might be subject to Sieve directives, especially within a
> single ADMD. Hence the Figure shows only one relationship, for (relative)
> simplicity.


The document inches ever-closer to finalization, with the intent of 
standardization, but the contents represent pretty good community consensus 
IMO, 
and the portion about SIEVE isn't controversial.  I believe it never has been.

d/
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   Dave Crocker
   Brandenburg InternetWorking
   bbiw.net
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