[Dovecot] Subaddress Extension in sieve plugin

Robert Tomanek
Wed, 26 Sep 2007 17:51:40 -0000

Hi,

Wednesday, September 26, 2007, 15:02:06, you wrote:
> With many MTAs it is possible to use a special form of adressing:
subaddresses or "plussed
> addresses".
> In a sieve filter you can analyse these special detail values, the syntax
is described in
> RFC3598 (http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3598).
> The current deliver with sieve plugin for dovecot seems to support this
RFC, but has the
> detail information not available.
> I did not analyse the problem very deep, but I believe we should introduce
a new command
> line parameter for deliver, so deliver can pass the detail
> information to the sieve plugin.

 While I am no expert on this (I have just started using sieve filters
 and Dovecot deliver) it definitely looks tempting to me. I'd be glad
 to see it (or an equivalent implementation) in Dovecot.

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Best regards,
 Robert Tomanek                           mailto:rth23 at poczta.onet.pl