Timed Actions in Sieve

[Juan Pablo Baudoin]

I had the same problem and solved it using a bash programan that 
generates the necesary sieve scripts. This is run with cron every day at 
night It checks for configuration request on a directory, process those 
files and creates sieve scripts for vacation activation and for 
deactivation, finaly it uses sieveshell to upload the scripts. At this 
moment this scripts are in their first version I hope to improve them 
but It would be better to have this functionality in sieve.

bye

Listaccount wrote:
> Zitat von Ian G Batten <ian.batten at uk.fujitsu.com>:
>
>   
>> 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
>>     
>
> This would be for sure a really useful extension for sieve. The Horde  
> Project (www.horde.org) has the same problem for the sieve web  
> interface "Ingo" where it is up until now solved by regexp matching  
> headers. But as headers can be forged and unreliable (wrong system  
> clock at sending site) a sieve extension for access the local system  
> time/timezone and compare against it would be preferable.
>
> Regards
>
> Andreas
>
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