--On Tuesday, July 8, 2003 11:34 AM -0400 Ken Murchison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
|> What about IMAP APPEND? Does that trigger the script? It really ought to |> as well. | | I hadn't anticipated this. What would be the need/advantage of this? |
There is a huge potential for using sieve scripts for IMAP COPY/APPEND operations to help automate processing of messages once they have arrived. For example, I use the mailbox hierarchy as a way of organising my email, so I have a 'Personal' mailbox, 'Personal. Friends', 'Personal.Family' etc. Since I still choose to have messages delivered to INBOX, I then need to manually classify each message and copy into the relevant mailbox after reading/responding. What would be good is to have a single 'Rule' mailbox with a script attached to it and that script would have all the logic for determining the appropriate mailbox to copy the message into. All I would then need to do is copy all messages I want to file away into the Rule mailbox and the server/script would take care of filing it away properly for me. Obviously clients can implement logic like that on the client-side, but it would be nice to have it done on the server. The same kind of behaviour would be nice for sent-mail messages too (i.e. APPEND).
Clearly certain sieve script actions do not make sense with COPY/APPEND - in particular reject, so there would have to be some form of 'profile' of sieve that would make sense.
-- Cyrus Daboo
