global sieve script?

[Joe Hrbek]

I won't attempt to suggest any ideas to implement a global rule, but I do
have some ideas about the use of such a feature.

The reason I originally asked was to make my life a little easier. :) I have
a group of users, about 250 that are restricted in who they can receive
email from and who they can send email to.  It's easy enough to restrict who
they can email at the mta level, but the rest is more trouble than I'm
willing to put up with, so I use sieve to filter who can receive what.  It
generates more email traffic, but I don't care, we don't have that much
volume.

I wrote some php scripts via php-cyradm that goes through the user mailboxes
and updates the scripts automatically when I make a change, but I thought it
would be awesome to have a file that held a list of mailboxes, and whenever
a message was delivered to that mailbox, do some action.  Of course, taking
priority over whatever script the user had installed in his mailbox.  This
way I only need to edit one file instead of 250. :)

Granted, my scripts work just fine for me, but it could be better. :)

-j

> It would have to go through lmtpd twice. Terribly inefficient I'm sure,
> and I'll bet some people are cringing as we read.
>
> The first pass through is for the global sieve script(s). Handled on
> a per domain basis, or maybe for the server if you truly want it
> to be global, as for say, SPAM filtering or Virus checking, etc.
>
> If it makes it to the second pass it's just normal lmtpd delivery.
>
> There is no interaction per se, but there is a precedence, which
> really should go to the global filter, IMHO.
>
> That said, is this really something that postmasters want to start
> doing? You are messing with peoples email with a sieve script and
> have the potential to delete or redirect email that should be
> allowed to go to the user who may then decide. I'd bet that's been
> a reason that global filtering hasn't happened yet.
>
> Regards,
> Earl Shannon
>
> Edward Rudd wrote:
> > nope.. It's not in there.
> > Not sure when it will be either, as it's a little more involved than
> > just adding it in to cyrus imapd.. one has to figure out how a global
> > script will interact with a users local script, including having one
> > override another. Which AFAIK is not documented in the RFC..
> >
> > On Thu, 2004-03-04 at 17:22, Joe Hrbek wrote:
> >
> >>This was posted in reference to a global sieve script:
> >>
> >>http://www.irbs.net/internet/info-cyrus/0112/0133.html
> >>
> >>It dates back to 2001.  Is this capability now present in the
> latest cyrus
> >>package?  I use simon matter's RPM.
> >>
> >>If so, this would be very cool.
> >>
> >>-j
> >>
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