Cyrus Sieve futures

[Ken Murchison]

All,

I'm in the process of rewriting the Sieve parser and adding new 
extensions for what will become part of Cyrus v3.1.  We currently 
support deprecated and non-standardized extensions "imapflags" 
(standardized as "imap4flags) and "notify" (standardized as "enotify").  
I'd like to rip out the parser and bytecode generator for these 
extensions, and leave just the bytecode executing code for the 
deprecated actions "mark", "unmark", and "denotify".

Any existing scripts using these actions (or the older "notify" syntax) 
would continue to run.  New/updated scripts would have to switch to 
using the updated "notify" syntax and replace "mark" and "unmark" with 
"setflag"/"addflag" and "removeflag".  Does anyone have an issue with 
these changes?

Does anyone have any requests for standard extensions that we don't 
currently support?  Note that "variables", "mailbox" and "*metadata" 
will be in Cyrus 3.0 and "ereject", "editheader", and "extlists" are 
already in what will be the 3.1 branch.

Extensions that I'm looking at implementing (pretty much because they 
are low-hanging fruit) are "duplicate", "environment", and "ihave".  I 
may also look at "replace" and "extracttext" which would be useful if we 
add handling of calendar events to Sieve.

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Kenneth Murchison
Principal Systems Software Engineer
Carnegie Mellon University