Re: What's the state of client management of server-side mail filters?
Joe Emenaker wrote:
> Gilles Mocellin wrote:
>> On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 12:01:48PM -0800, Joe Emenaker wrote:
>> [...]
>>
>>> So, I guess the question is: Does anybody know of an initiative like this?
>>>
>> Yes, look at sieve.
>> Cyrus Imap support sieve, dovecot too.
>> There is a Thunderbird extension.
>>
> Ooooh, nice! That's pretty much what I had in mind (although the
> Thunderbird plugin seems like it's just a text editor, and not
> integrated with a nifty GUI that would, say, ensure that you don't try
> to create a rule that directs mail to a folder which doesn't exist). Now
> if only qmail would support it. (sigh)....
>
Sieve is very awesome, especially if you have more than one location you
use IMAP at (for me it's home, office, phone, rolling cart computer, and
webmail). I stopped using client side filters a long time ago and never
looked back.
Horde, RoundCube and SquirrelMail have visual editors for sieve. T-bird,
unfortunately, does not and the plugin is just a managesieve interface
that lets you write and manage scripts. The others hide the managesieve,
but it's all the same deal server side. At least under Dovecot if you
created a rule to a nonexistent folder it'll just create it and
optionally auto-subscribe to it.
~Seth
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