Re: Duplicate test
Stephan Bosch <[email protected]>
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On 1/16/2013 11:36 PM, Alexey Melnikov wrote: > On 14/01/2013 12:23, Stephan Bosch wrote: >> Hi, >> >> A while back I built a non-standard Sieve extension for detecting >> duplicate message deliveries, e.g. as seen when people cross-post >> over multiple mailing lists. This functionality is very similar to >> what could be achieved with Procmail using formail -D. Someone >> requested this at some point and in a moment of boredom I built the >> initial implementation. Last year I extended it a bit and I made it >> more generic. I never intended for this to be standardized, but - now >> that I look at it again - I think this may yet be of some interest to >> other Sieve implementers as well. >> >> I make a habit of documenting my custom Sieve extensions in a >> familiar RFC-like manner: >> >> http://hg.rename-it.nl/dovecot-2.1-pigeonhole/raw-file/tip/doc/rfc/spec-bosch-sieve-duplicate.txt >> >> >> What do you think? Would you be interested in having functionality >> like this standardized? Should I submit this as a draft? > I think this would be worth standardizing. Some comments on the document: > > 1). I think the text motivating existence of this extension needs a > bit of restructuring: it first introduces a very generic concept of > matching and only later it talks about duplicate suppression. I would > reverse that: describe some specific use cases first, then generalize. Agreed. I'll revise that in the next version. Regards, Stephan. _______________________________________________ sieve mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/sieve