Some Imap servers understand SIEVE. That protocol is designed for server-based mail handling. Examples are Cyrus Imap and Dove Imap. There are some plugins available for Squirrelmail and probably other webmail clients to handle Sieve filter rules. I think Kmail allows you to manipulate sieve scripts directly. The problem with sieve is that it is not easy, and you can't turn it over to your typical office staff. It is nice to have server side sorting of mail. We provide SIEVE to ~500 end-user via Horde's Ingo web interface. Our "typical office staff" don't seem to have any problem understanding it. With "it" being the Ingo interface, not the Sieve language ?
Yep. Of course users can directly compose SIEVE or procmail scripts.
Do they use it a lot? (just curious).
About 20% of our users maintain SIEVE scripts beyond vacation notices. Many of those have quite a selection of rules, to the point where I had to raise the limit of the maximum SIEVE script on the server. On current versions of Cyrus SIEVE scripts are compiled to byte-code rather than interpreted which reduced the performance cost to nearly nothing. And the nature of the language eliminates the security concerns of procmail scripts. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org