On 24-Oct-05, at 11:52 AM, Greg Pierce wrote:
> On Oct 24, 2005, at 1:19 PM, Brian Andresen wrote:
>
>> Does anyone know of activity in this direction? I'm not aware of
>> any, but then I don't track development in this area.
>
> In the free software arena?
>
> Sieve filtering is implemented in Cyrus, and a number of proprietary
> IMAP servers. And there's a plugin for SquirrelMail to allow editing
> of your filters server side. It's all very capable stuff, but, yea,
> it's clunky for your average user with the UI currently available.
Mulberry IMAP client also had a Sieve interface, but I tried it and
it was really buggy.
I'm using Sieve and Cyrus to do server side filtering and it's
wonderful... it would not be hard to write a good GUI for managing
Sieve scripts. I wrote my Sieve script by hand, it wasn't hard after
seeing some good examples (which weren't easy enough to find via
Google unfortunately).
> There's a lot of other proprietary solutions for this stuff, too,
> with commercial servers.
>
> Apple nicely addressed some of the issues by allowing you to sync
> mail rules/accounts with a .Mac account -- but, yes, that still only
> works with different macs and only if you're using Mail.app.
If you sync the rules does it apply them on the server or just back
them up so other clients can download and use the same rules in
mail.app?
I wonder if it's possible to do a Mail.app rules to Sieve translator?
Jim
