Oden Eriksson wrote:
måndagen den 10 februari 2003 18.37 skrev David Walser:
Brook Humphrey wrote:
On Monday 10 February 2003 08:32 am, David Walser wrote:
Interesting point, I hadn't thought of that.
Well, I think last time I tested courier was last Spring, so if I get
time I'll test it again and see if the problems I had before have been
resolved. It's too bad Courier doesn't support SIEVE :o( Oh well.
tarvid wrote:
Forgive my ignorance but what is SIEVE?
It's a scripting thing, you can do a lot of things with it, but it's
main use is server-side filtering of e-mails. Currently with any other
IMAP server, say you have some folders, and you want to filter some
mails into the different folders. You do your filter in Mozilla Mail,
and then don't get run when you use SquirrelMail (webmail), or vice
versa. SIEVE does all the filtering when the messages are delivered on
the server (rather than when you check your mail), so it's consistent
across all IMAP clients, and also there are nice GUI and web-based tools
for configuring SIEVE filters.
Aha!, I had never heard that word before.
This sounds almost what you can do with the whole courier mail server by Mr.
Sam. It's also possible with just maildrop and courier-imap. If you're also
using sqwebmail (as I am) you can do the filtering there (never got that to
work to my satisfaction with my vpopmail setup), and the filtering rules made
in the sqwebmail "gui" is valid for both the courier-imap server and its pop3
counterpart (you need to know regexp though). courier mail server experts can
speak up now and tell us like it is...
Well, it may be *possible* to replicate some of that functionality with
courier, but is it easy is a question. You can configure SIEVE through
webmail or real e-mail clients, and it's standardized through the IETF.
For some reason the maildrop package vanished from Mandrake.
So..., I suspect postfix+maildir+courier-imap+maildrop+sqwebmail could be a
reality in Mandrake? Please don't ask me to make _that_ work as I'm a qmail
guy, and I don't care about postfix ;)
As a fact I don't even use the courier-imap packages in contribs myself... (as
I use vpopmail)
Well there is also a SquirrelMail plugin for maildrop.
