Evolution sucks??

[Mark E. Mallett]

On Tue, Feb 13, 2007 at 12:24:39PM -0500, Neil Joseph Schelly wrote:
> On Tuesday 13 February 2007 11:59 am, Ben Scott wrote:
> >   It is very true that there's nothing like a standard mechanism for
> > the processing side of things (although procmail comes close, at least
> > in the nix world).  There's even less in the way of a standard
> > protocol for configuring any such mechanism over a network.
> 
> Sieve is exactly that standard mechanism.  It's well documented, but 
> unfortunately not well implemented.

Do you mean not widely?  More so than you might think, I think.  exim
and sendmail both have sieve implementations (although I think
sendmail's is only on its commercial side).  dovecot IMAP server has a
delivery agent using sieve (via libsieve).  There are others.  A couple
of (as ever, incomplete) lists can be found via

   http://sieve.info/

I think I've plugged my own implementation here a time or two(*).


> Cyrus does an awesome job of 
> implementing it though and SquirrelMail's plugin means that you can have 
> users able to configure even complicated Sieve scripts in a pretty 
> environment.

Do you really need a pretty environment?  :)

mm

(*)Burying it here:  http://www.mvmf.org/ .  Those interested in an
alternative delivery agent (e.g., to procmail) might want to look.  For
anyone running qmail, you also get a nice replacement for qmail-smtpd.