Re: [Phpgroupware-developers] New features in Mail app

[Tarjei Huse]

Check out the sieve mailfiltering language. It's got a serverside implementation
taht comes with cyrus-imapd. The syntax is very like the one you described
farther down. Implementing sieve would could make the filters serverside for
cyrus users (ops, dreaming...). 

Just my 0.000002 cents :)
TH


Ryan Waldron wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 20 Nov 2001, Tony (Angles) Puglisi wrote:
> 
> > Will someone post to this list their concept of how this "filtering" should 
> > work,
> > so I at least have a target functionality to shoot for before I start 
> > writting any
> > code. Note that this will provide me with some insight from people who 
> > actually
> > know what they want in this capacity.
> 
> A-HA!  At last, something I can actually talk about with some tiny
> modicum of clue.
> 
> Here are the things that I find incredibly useful in email filtering:
> 
> o Ability to classify headers in groups ("Recipients", which would
> include To:, CC:, and even BCC: (since filtering should also be
> possible on outbound email, to automate CC:ing to folders)
> 
> o Ability to filter on arbitrary strings in the header section - this
> basically lets me search for a specific header ("X-Dorkmeister: ")
> that I might get from some program that sends me email, and is
> generally useful for all kinds of things.
> 
> o REGEXPS!  I want my regexps.  I NEED my regexps.  Gotta be able to
> filter based on at least simple regexps, to catch stuff like
> 'bill@(.*\.)?microcrap.com' and filter Bill's clever attempts to reach
> me from ANY domain under the microcrap.com domain.
> 
> Some nice-to-haves that probably wouldn't be too much more work;
> 
> o Extend the option to filter to the text body.
> o Filter messages based on whether or not they have attachments
> o Filter based on message size
> o Filter based on missing recipient lists (a rudimentary spam alert)
> 
> Some just-dreaming-here stuff:
> 
> o Filter rulesets - In English:
> 
>   If 'to:' contains "address@hidden", then
>       If "Subject: " contains "Important!" then
>           Flag 'High Priority'
>       else
>           Flag 'Medium Priority'
>   else
>       If "Subject: " contains "Important!" then
>           Flag "Spam"
>   endif
> 
> It would be nice, in other words, to be able to create chains of rules
> that are conditional on ones above them, and can "fall-through".  No
> idea how you'd do that. :)
> 
> o Make the filtering stuff hookable (is that a word?) such that some
> enterprising person who wants to port one of the existing Open Source
> spam filter tools or rulesets to a module can plug it in, and voila!
> phpGroupWare, now with spam control (as an option).
> 
> There!  There's my (initial) thoughts on it.
> 
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