Automatically moving marked mails?

[Ian Eiloart]

--On 9 July 2009 11:27:55 -0400 Jorey Bump <list at joreybump.com> wrote:

> Ian Eiloart wrote, at 07/09/2009 10:46 AM:
>>
>> --On 9 July 2009 09:54:31 -0400 Adam Tauno Williams
>> <adam at morrison-ind.com>  wrote:
>>
>>>>> Ian Eiloart wrote, at 07/09/2009 05:39 AM:
>>>>>> Except that the sieve server ought to be on the border MTA, so that
>>>>>> the user can tell the server to reject the message at SMTP time.
>>>>> That's not feasible for mail with multiple recipients.
>>>> It is if your rule is to reject all email from a specific sender.
>>> No, because the MTA either accepts or rejects a message [in
>>> connection].
>>
>> Not true. The MTA can decide *per recipient* whether to accept mail from
>> a  specific sender.
>
> How?

Well, you have to have the right software to begin with. Some MTA software 
simply accepts all email, then decides what to do with it. You don't want 
that type.

To understand how this works, you need to understand the SMTP protocol. 
Perhaps info-cyrus isn't the right place to be explaining that, but read 
through the example at 
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simple_Mail_Transfer_Protocol#SMTP_transport_example>. 
Imagine that theboss has blacklisted Bob, but Alice hasn't.




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