Re: [Evolution] Filtering for one folder?

[Peter Williams <peterw ximian com>]

On Wed, 2002-08-21 at 03:34, Oliver Sturm wrote:
> As I said, I do server-side filtering. Nothing wrong with that, I would
> think... Actually, there's a language for it called Sieve (RFC 3028 or
> http://www.cyrusoft.com/sieve/index.html), which may be a fine thing to
> support. I think the assumption that mail only ever arrives in one
> specific folder is wrong.

The problem with Sieve is probably 95% of IMAP servers don't implement
it, so it's basically useless (none of UW, Courier, or Exchange have
it.)

We know that you can't assume that all mail arrives in INBOX, but it's
the only way to implement the filtering that won't be a huge resource
drain.

Peter

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