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Re: [Phpgroupware-developers] New features in Mail app
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Tarjei Huse |
Subject: |
Re: [Phpgroupware-developers] New features in Mail app |
Date: |
Tue, 20 Nov 2001 23:32:01 +0100 |
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.
>
> --
> Ryan Waldron ||| http://www.erebor.com ||| address@hidden
>
> "The web goes ever, ever on, down from the site where it began..."
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- Re: [Phpgroupware-developers] New features in Mail app, (continued)
- Re: [Phpgroupware-developers] New features in Mail app, Tony (Angles) Puglisi, 2001/11/20
- RE: [Phpgroupware-developers] New features in Mail app, Spot, 2001/11/20
- RE: [Phpgroupware-developers] New features in Mail app, Spot, 2001/11/20
- Re: [Phpgroupware-developers] New features in Mail app, Tony (Angles) Puglisi, 2001/11/20
- Re: [Phpgroupware-developers] New features in Mail app, Lars Kneschke, 2001/11/20
- Re: [Phpgroupware-developers] New features in Mail app, Ryan Waldron, 2001/11/20
- Re: [Phpgroupware-developers] New features in Mail app,
Tarjei Huse <=
- Re: [Phpgroupware-developers] New features in Mail app, Patrick J. Walsh, 2001/11/20
- [Phpgroupware-developers] Typo in email/index.php from this morning, Ryan Waldron, 2001/11/21
- Re: [Phpgroupware-developers] New features in Mail app, Dan Kuykendall (Seek3r), 2001/11/21
- [Phpgroupware-developers] Translations, Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk, 2001/11/23
- [Phpgroupware-developers] LDAP contacts, Miles Lott, 2001/11/23
RE: [Phpgroupware-developers] New features in Mail app, Spot, 2001/11/20
RE: [Phpgroupware-developers] New features in Mail app, Chris Weiss, 2001/11/20
Re: [Phpgroupware-developers] New features in Mail app, Sam Przyswa, 2001/11/21