Re: [Evolution] Evolution & SIEVE [Was: IMAP and mail filters]

[Antono Vasiljev <self antono info>]

On Tue, 2011-02-15 at 09:18 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:

> > > > I solved this problem by doing all of my mail filtering remotely on the
> > > > IMAP server via Fastmail's filtering tools. (Fastmail.fm hosts my
> > > > email.)
> > > Its not solution, it's workaround :)
> >
> > <https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=216959>
> >
> > SIEVE is simply awesome;  I run my own Cyrus instance on Linode and my
> > employer uses Cyrus - so SIEVE is how I accomplish most of my filtering.
> > Server side filtering just makes good sense.
> >
> > I'm not a C-hacker;  but is anyone else interested in possibly posting a
> > bounty for this bug on one of the bounty services?  *Maybe* we could get
> > someone interested.  I'd be willing to put up $100 US.
>
> Sounds like nice project for Google's Summer Of Code if anyone wants to
> sponsor it.

I cant try to implement it without sponsoring. Probably not in C but in
some higher level language like Vala or Genie.

I explored managesieve client implementation in ruby and protocol seems
easy to be implemented. Only thing i doubt about is how easy it will be
to convert evolution filters to sieve scripts.




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