[PROPOSAL] Sieve for shared mailboxes

[Ken Murchison]

Cyrus Daboo wrote:

> Hi Rob,
> 
> --On Wednesday, July 09, 2003 2:08 AM +1000 Rob Mueller 
> <robm at fastmail.fm> wrote:
> 
> |> True.  I hadn't thought about that.  This might be worth exploring.
> |
> | I think this would be great. Personally I found the whole concept of
> | having an entirely different protocol to manage sieve scripts a bit
> | bewildering when a few simple additions to IMAP would have done it. I
> | guess someone thought it was a sufficiently distinct problem space...
> 
> SIEVE can of course be used with POP, so there does need to be a more 
> general script management protocol, unless you want to extend both POP 
> and IMAP.
> 
> | Anyway, now that the ANNOTATE extension provides more aribtrary meta-data
> | abilities, I think being able to set user sieve scripts by it would be
> | great. Of course interactions with managesieve could be tricky, but
> | still, I think it's definitely a worthwhile goal.
> 
> ManageSIEVE does allow arbitrary named scripts to be stored on the 
> server and activated. Doing that with ANNOTATEMORE is possible but may 
> be complex. It could probably be done by having the user's scripts all 
> listed under a server-level annotation (rather than a per-mailbox 
> annotation) with a specific annotation used to hold the name of the 
> active script.
> 
> One other thing that ManageSIEVE does that is useful is syntax checking 
> of a script being uploaded. Whilst Ken did not mention that, ideally 
> storing a script via IMAP should also do a syntax check and prevent the 
> store if the script is bad.

Actually, my intent wasn't to _store_ a script via IMAP ANNOTATEMORE.  I 
was only intending to _select_ (activate) a script via the annotation. 
I still anticipate using MANAGESIEVE to do the upload/download.

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