More information on Sieve - which comes with OsX server 10.4 and 10.5. - a language especially made to filter emails.

The advantage is that any processing done by Sieve happens before the emails are delivered into the users email box - a distinct advantage when you have a wireless device, like a iPhone that picks up your emails directly from a iMap mailbox.

About Sieve Sieve (RFC 3028) is a language for filtering e-mail messages. It is designed to be implementable on either a mail client or mail server. It is meant to be extensible, simple, and independent of access protocol, mail architecture, and operating system. It is suitable for running on a mail server where users may not be allowed to execute arbitrary programs, such as on black box IMAP servers, since in its basic form it has no variables, loops or ability to shell out to external programs. Sieve.Info is a wiki site that attempts to gather documents, implementations, notes, ideas and any kind of information regarding Sieve. The content is edited by volunteers. Please read how you can contribute. [From start [Sieve.Info] ]

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