Evolution sucks??

[Mark E. Mallett]

On Wed, Feb 14, 2007 at 08:19:53AM -0500, Neil Joseph Schelly wrote:
> 
> My procmail scripts are relatively simple.  They pipe messages through my spam 
> (spamc) and virus filters (clamfilter.pl).  Then they sort messages into 
> Maildir folders based on finding or not finding headers.  Obviously, messages 
> detected as spam are put in my spam, viruses are dropped, and various mailing 
> lists are put in folders intended for that list.
> 
> I don't have that piping functionality in Sieve, and I don't know if that's 
> because I use AvelSieve (SquirrelMail plugin) to manage my sieve scripts or 
> if it's because Sieve doesn't do that.

The latter.  Sieve has a different aim than procmail, and deliberately
doesn't give as much access to the system as procmail does.  That's one
reason that I chose to use Sieve as an embedded component of the
filtering language that I implemented.

My implementation does allow piping in a "fileinto" but only if
administratively enabled.  It also allows access to external utilities,
such as virus scanners, via a CUSP (commonly used service program)
facility.

Note that avlsieve can generate mfl code ...

-mm-  (ok, so I re-used CUSP.)