Re: bincdrop - a (courier) maildrop replacment

Peter Stuge wrote:
> This is for draft-managesieve. I don't like that design too much, nor
> having the scripts stored in the filesystem. They kind of go
> together. The problem I see is that there's no way to build
> (portable) tools around them since the sieve RFC is independent
> of all mail architectures. That makes it a two-edged sword..

I totally agree with you that the draft is horrible. It is some what sad 
that they happen to make a email filtering script and not a good way to 
interface with them on a imap server.

> I like Sieve itself a lot, but the best thing would be if we could
> figure out a mail architecture agnostic way to store the scripts, to
> go with the ditto filtering system.

My idea was a filter directory in the root of the maildir folder that 
contains mime-tagged files. But that is just an idea.

Do you have any ideas btw?

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Jerry Lundström
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