On Wed, 26 Sep 2007 11:40:37 +1000 "Rob Mueller" <robm@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I had a very brief talk with Ken about this ages back, about creating > a non-standard extension to IMAP that would allow you to "run" a > sieve script against a bunch of messages in a mailbox This is pretty close and ... standard: http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-lemonade-imap-sieve-03.txt What is missing in there, I think, is a standard way of on-demand invocation of Sieve scripts, and options for test runs. Your other option, of course, is to implement this in the client. [I have been dreaming of exporting avelsieve filters to Squirrelmail's client filters scheme, so as to apply the former in the client. [It is also possible to do another client-side integration with Sieve filter expressions and IMAP search expressions, so as to see which messages apply to a specific filter, and do further work with these messages. [The possibilities are endless, really...]]] Alexandros -- Alexandros Vellis National & Kapodistrian University of Athens Network Operations Centre ---- Cyrus Home Page: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/ Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/twiki List Archives/Info: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/mailing-list.html
