[Discuss] Sieve

[dsr at randomstring.org (Dan Ritter)]

On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 06:15:02PM -0400, Tom Metro wrote:
> Dan Ritter wrote:
> > Tom Metro wrote:
> >> ...server-size filtering. What technique are you using?
> > 
> > The simplest: I observed that people generally spend a long
> > period of time with the same filtering rules, have small bursts
> > of changes, and then continue - so I deliver through mailfilter,
> > procmail or Mail::Audit or whatever my very small set of users 
> > prefer. They log in to change rules, or ask me to do it for
> > them.
> 
> I buy the premise that mail rules probably change quite infrequently.
> That fits my own experience with my own rules.
> 
> Still, it would be an annoyance to have to broker those changes through
> an administrator.

Clueful people do it themselves; there really aren't many
changes requested by the less clueful.

> I gather you didn't think Sieve[1] was worth the effort to implement?

It was in infancy when I started this mail server. We're about
to plan the successor, so Sieve will be under consideration.

> > For a larger user population,
> > http://fritz.potsdam.edu/projects/email/
> > describes an architecture I am contemplating adapting.
> 
> qmail based? I lost my taste for qmail years ago. The larger
> architecture may still be a good idea.

qmail is, indeed, largely a matter of taste.

-dsr-