I had looked into this before, but really haven't had a chance to follow up on it. There is an draft for a sieve date/time extension, which allows you to use time comparisons in conditionals -- for example, the vacation message defined by a date range. This looks like its the current version of the draft: http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-freed-sieve-date-index-07 On Nov 13, 2007, at 06:24, Ian G Batten wrote: > We've been having a chat about how useful it would be to have timed > actions in sieve: so that a vacation message could be set up for a > duration which would automatically revert, so that a forwarding could > be set up for the duration of a short-term project, etc, etc. The > naive way is to add support to the sieve interface of choice (the > squirrelmail plugin in our case) to handle deferred actions, but I > can think of all sorts of security problems with that. Another would > be a means to auto-generate regexps to match on Date: headers, but > that's really tacky. The full solution would be to have the current > time available in sieve scripts, to then match on. Has anyone else > thought about this area? > > ian > > ---- > 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 ---- 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
