On Fri, 19 Mar 2004, Stephen Grier wrote: > Isn't it the case that for user-space mailboxes, sieve scripts are only > applied on delivery via LMTP, and not when a message is copied or > fileintod it? I don't see why the same behaviour wouldn't be adequate > for shared mailboxes.
It isn't quite the same. Right now, sieve scripts are set for "delivery to user" -- making sieve scripts per-folder instead opens up a world of possibilities among which is the following example. I have INBOX.family, INBOX.family.mom, INBOX.family.dad, and so on. I want to be able to just drag and drop a message onto INBOX.family and have it filtered into the the right sub-mailbox. So I put a sieve script on INBOX.family, and it does so. It would also do so if my "main" sieve script executed a fileinto "INBOX.family" and so on. This can apply to shared folders just as easily. This sort of behavior allows you to have a collection of short sieve scripts rather than one very large complicated one. It also opens a world of possibility for new bugs. There definately isn't a consensus on what the desireable behavior here is. -Rob -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Rob Siemborski * Andrew Systems Group * Cyert Hall 207 * 412-268-7456 Research Systems Programmer * /usr/contributed Gatekeeper --- Home Page: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyruswiki.andrew.cmu.edu List Archives/Info: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/mailing-list.html
