Re: Sieve (was: Re: Mailutils new competitor)

[Alain Magloire]

> 
> On Sun, Feb 18, 2001 at 09:41:39PM -0500, Alain Magloire wrote:
> 
> > Well, now that you've mention it!
> > If someone is looking for an interesting project, probably implementing
> > a LGPL sieve implementation would be very nice for mailutils.
> > The language is not complexe and should be a good exercise to
> > implement with (f)lex/yacc(bison).
> > 
> > This is something I've been contemplating, but I'm book and my free time
> > is streched to the limit.
> > 
> > Sieve is defined in rfc3028.
> 
> Cool.  Does this really have it's place in mailutils?

Yes, sieve seems to be the standard language(at least the one documentend
by the ietf(imc)) to make filtering etc ...  Instead of reinventing yet
another awkward syntax to do the same, lets standardize on std.

>  If yes, it might 
> be interesting to implement it as a frontend onto guile.  It would make 
> rms happy. =)

beurk!
In anycase, we probably need a libsieve.a part of mailutils, so it will
have to be in C.  Not sure how to do it though.

-- 
au revoir, alain
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