Idea for filtered access to cyrus

[Gerd v. Egidy]

On Wednesday 02 August 2006 17:18, Michael R. Gettes wrote:
> Rob Carter (duke) and I have been discussing for some time how to
> provide filtered access to the IMAP store using cyrus (cuz we use
> cyrus - duh!).
>
> Problem:  With the blackberry a user can filter what email is sent
> to their device.  It's a handy and powerful ability.  Non-blackberry
> devices that speak the IMAP protocol do not have such a filtering
> ability.  You essentially get ALL your mail.  We see this as
> problematic.
> So, how to provide a filtering ability without changing the clients?

You may want to have a look at the stuff the Lemonade Working Group in the 
IETF is working on:

http://flyingfox.snowshore.com/i-d/lemonade/

Kind regards,

Gerd