Re: [sieve] SPECIAL-USE in Sieve (RFC 6154)

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> Currently, the Sieve language lacks the means of freely accessing the
> IMAP special-use mailbox attributes (RFC 6154). For example, it would be
> nice to be able to determine what the Junk mailbox is during Sieve
> processing at delivery, based on which mailbox has the "\Junk"
> special-use attribute assigned. I believe I have coined this idea before
> several years ago, but the incentive to actually build or document
> anything was never very high.

> Recently, I found the motivation to design a proper Sieve extension for
> this; I finished implementing IMAPSIEVE and in that context such
> functionality can also be very useful.  The draft specification is
> attached, since the IETF draft submission is currently blocked.

> Please tell me what you think. I aim to submit this to appsawg soon, but
> I think most Sieve people are still concentrated here, so I post it here
> first.

This looks like a useful addition to sieve to me. I support its adoption as a
draft.

One thing you'll need to address is the ability for the same special use
attribute to be attached to multiple mailboxes. Since the ability to have the
same special-use attribute on multiple mailboxes is implementation-specific, my
suggestion would be to make the behavior in this case implementation-specific
as well.

				Ned