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Subject:    [sylpheed:26758] Re: imap filtering?
From:       Seth Kurtzberg <seth () cql ! com>
Date:       2006-01-09 20:19:11
Message-ID: 20060109151911.0bee7d7d.seth () cql ! com
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The approach I've been taking is to produce files for maildrop (which is a somewhat \
saner tool in the mold of procmail).  I think a translation step is more manageable \
for several reasons, not the least of which is that one can construct different back \
ends and compile your desired filtering language into whatever tools might be \
available for a particular MTA.

I'm taking the same approach with filters in sylpheed itself.  I'm taking the output \
generated by the sylpheed filtering dialogs and producing maildrop files for use on \
the server side.

Maildrop works nicely with several common MTAs including qmail, postfix, and \
courier's MTA.  (And no doubt others that I haven't tried yet.)

I've not tried, thus far, to support filtering directly at the IMAP level.

Seth Kurtzberg 

On Mon, 9 Jan 2006 15:07:26 -0500
Bruce Bowler <bbowler@bigelow.org> wrote:

> On Mon, 9 Jan 2006 08:36:18 -0800 (PST)
> "Randy.Dunlap" <rdunlap@xenotime.net> put fingers to keyboard and said:
> 
> > On Mon, 9 Jan 2006, Bruce Bowler wrote:
> > 
> > > I don't particularly care for procmail, too non-intuituve for me.
> > > 
> > > Is it likely that sylpheed will support imap filtering in the near
> > > future?  Currently you can create filters but they don't (appear to)
> > > do anything.
> > > 
> > > Are there alternatives to procmail that are more "natural language"?
> > 
> > A search for 'sieve' on freshmeat.net shows several
> > sieve-related packages, some of which even work on IMAP servers.
> > 
> > If any of those help or you make other progress on this, please
> > let me/us know.
> 
> Well, actually, I realized I could do *most* of it with the MTA we use
> (exim) and its filtering capabilities (note exim also supports 'sieve',
> but its native capabilities appear more powerful the sieve, so I plan on
> sticking with them).  The part that I can't do is filtering "sent"
> messages since its filters aren't invoked on send, so the capacity would
> still be nice in sylpheed :-)
> 
> 
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