Apply Sieve script to messages already in INBOX?

Mike Eggleston mikeegg1 at mac.com
Tue Sep 25 16:56:32 EDT 2007


On Tue, 25 Sep 2007, patrick might have said:

> I sense the answer is no, but I wanted to be sure. Is it possible to
> apply a Sieve script to messages that are already in the INBOX? We are
> using Horde/IMP for webmail and recently switched the filtering engine
> from the bug-ridden IMAP filtering to use Sieve scripts on the server
> itself. There was no good way to port people's existing scripts over,
> and so some people are left with mail that would have normally been
> filtered that wasn't because of the inherent delay between the switch
> and them recreating the rules.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Patrick
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A kludgy solution... what about fetchmail to pull the INBOX contents
and resubmit the messages to deliver?

Mike


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