Re: Sieve Attributes in Accounts Dataset

Steve Hole <steve@esys.ca> Wed, 20 May 1998 14:43 UTC

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From: Steve Hole <steve@esys.ca>
Date: Wed, 20 May 1998 08:46:13 -0600
To: Randall Gellens <randy@Qualcomm.Com>
Subject: Re: Sieve Attributes in Accounts Dataset
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On Tue, 19 May 1998 16:19:21 -0700 Randall Gellens <randy@qualcomm.com> wrote:

> draft-gellens-acap-acnt-00 proposed a "Sieve.Script" attribute in the
> Accounts dataset, to contain the Sieve script to be executed against
> incoming mail for an account.
> 
> I'd like to add optional magic attributes for determining syntax
> warnings and errors.  If the server advertises the "Sieve" capability,
> it supports the magic attributes.

So the idea is provide a standard place for the sieve interpretter to record 
errors encountered in the script?   If so, why restrict it to syntactic 
errors.   Why not generalize to include executive errors -- a log that the 
client can display to see how things are going.

Cheers.
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Steve Hole                           
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