Re: [Evolution] sieve

[Murray Trainer <mtrainer central-data net>]

On Wed, 2008-01-30 at 16:39 +0900, Murray Trainer wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-05-23 at 15:49 +0800, Murray Trainer wrote:
> > On Wed, 2006-05-17 at 14:02 +0800, Murray Trainer wrote:
> > > On Wed, 2006-05-17 at 07:41 +0200, Ron Smits wrote:
> > > > a few years ago, there was some talk about integrating serverside
> > > > filtering in evolution somewhere in 2003 if I remember correctly.
> > > >
> > > > has this ever happened?
> > > >
> > > > Ron
> > >
> > > Hi Ron,
> > >
> > > I asked about this and did some investigation on its support in other
> > > mail clients.  See below:
> > >
> > > http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=216959
> > >
> > > I just got Sieve working with Horde (Ingo module) and it is great.  Only
> > > thing I'm not sure about is if there is a way to apply Sieve filters to
> > > already delivered mail - maybe you know an answer to that?
> > >
> > > Murray
> >
> > Just found this by accident - more support for the Evolution Sieve
> > support argument :-)
> >
> > The sieve mail filtering language specified in RFC 3028 has now been
> > implemented in a wide variety of user agents (UAs), mail delivery 
> > agents (MDAs), and mail transfer agents (MTAs). Several extensions have
> > been specified (RFCs 3431, 3598, 3685, 3894) and have also been widely
> > implemented. Several additional sieve extensions have been defined in
> > various internet-drafts.
> >
> > http://www.ietf.org/html.charters/sieve-charter.html
> >
> > Murray
>
> Hi,
>
> Another reason to implement Sieve support in Evolution -  Zimbra uses
> Sieve to store its mail filters.  I have logged a feature request for
> the Zimbra Evolution connector here:
>
> https://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1882430&group_id=205508&atid=993928
>
> but it probably requires server side filtering to be implemented in
> Evolution.  The bug for that is here:
>
> > http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=216959
>
>
> Murray

Thunderbird has Sieve support ...

http://sieve.mozdev.org/index.html

Zimbra uses Sieve - Zimbra passed 6 Million mailboxes over a year
ago ...

http://news.thomasnet.com/companystory/506501


Murray