Sieve Mail Filtering Language (sieve) ------------------------------------- Charter Last Modified: 2007-12-17 Current Status: Active Working Group Chair(s): Cyrus Daboo Alexey Melnikov Applications Area Director(s): Chris Newman Lisa Dusseault Applications Area Advisor: Lisa Dusseault Mailing Lists: General Discussion:ietf-mta-filters@imc.org To Subscribe: ietf-mta-filters-request@imc.org In Body: body=subscribe Archive: http://www.imc.org/ietf-mta-filters/mail-archive/ Description of Working Group: The sieve mail filtering language specified in RFC 3028 has now been implemented in a wide variety of user agents (UAs), mail delivery agents (MDAs), and mail transfer agents (MTAs). Several extensions have been specified (RFCs 3431, 3598, 3685, 3894) and have also been widely implemented. Several additional sieve extensions have been defined in various internet-drafts. All of these documents are individual submissions; up to this point work on sieve has been done informally and not under the auspices of any IETF working group. The sieve working group is being chartered to: (1) Revise the base sieve specification, RFC 3028, with the intention of moving it to draft standard. Substantive additions or revisions to the base specification are out of scope of this working group. However, the need to loosen current restrictions on side effects of tests as well as the need for a normative reference to the newly-defined comparators registry may necessitate a recycle at proposed. (2) Produce updated sieve relational (RFC 3431), subaddress (RFC 3598), spamtest/virustest (RFC 3685), and copy (RFC 3894) extension specifications, again with the intention of making a move to draft standard possible. It may be necessary to recycle some or all of these documents at proposed, depending on the scope of any changes. (3) Finalize and publish the sieve extensions as proposed standards: (a) Variables (draft-homme-sieve-variables-04.txt) (b) Vacation action (draft-showalter-sieve-vacation-05.txt) (c) Message body tests (draft-degener-sieve-body-02.txt) (d) Regular expressions (draft-murchison-sieve-regex-07.txt) (e) MIME part tests (draft-daboo-sieve-mime-00.txt) (f) Notification action (draft-martin-sieve-notify-02.txt) (g) IMAP flags (draft-melnikov-sieve-imapflags-06.txt) (h) Header editing actions (draft-degener-sieve-editheader-01.txt) (i) Reject before delivery (draft-elvey-refuse-sieve-01.txt) Additional drafts may be added this list, but only via a charter revision. There must also be demonstrable willingness in the sieve development community to actually implement a given extension before it can be added to this charter. Some aspects of sieve have complex internationalization issues; the working group will seek out internationalization expertise as needed to complete its work. Goals and Milestones: Done Submit revised variables draft. Done Submit revised vacation draft. Done WG last call for variables draft. Done Initial submission of RFC 3028bis. Done WG last call for RFC 3028bis. Done Initial submission of revised relational draft. Done Initial submission of revised subaddress draft. Done Initial submission of revised spamtest/virustest draft. Done Submit revised editheader draft. Done Submit revised imapflags draft. Done WG last call of revised subaddress draft. Done Submit revised body test draft. Done WG last call for editheader draft. Done Submit revised reject before delivery draft. Done WG last call for body test draft. Done WG last call for refuse draft Done WG last call of revised spamtest draft Done Submit variables draft to IESG Done Submit revised notification action draft Done WG last call of revised relational draft Done WG last call for imap-flags draft Done WG last call for vacation draft Done Submit revised loop draft Done Submit revised relational draft to IESG Done Submit vacation draft to IESG Done WG last call of revised subaddress draft Done Submit revised subaddress draft to IESG Done Submit imapflags draft to IESG Done Submit revised spamtest draft to IESG May 2006 Submit editheader draft to IESG Done Submit 3028bis to IESG Jun 2006 Submit revised regex draft Done Submit body test draft to IESG Jul 2006 Submit refuse draft to IESG Jul 2006 WG last call of regex draft Done WG last call for notification action draft Done Submit notification action draft to IESG Aug 2006 3028bis interop report framework/matrix Aug 2006 WG last call for loop draft Sep 2006 Submit loop draft to IESG Sep 2006 Submit regex action draft to IESG Internet-Drafts: Posted Revised I-D Title ------ ------- -------------------------------------------- Feb 2005 Mar 2008 Sieve Email Filtering: Body Extension Feb 2005 Feb 2008 Sieve Email Filtering: Editheader Extension May 2005 Dec 2007 Sieve Email Filtering: Extensions for Rejecting Messages Sep 2005 Dec 2007 SIEVE Email Filtering: Extension for Notifications Dec 2005 Mar 2008 Sieve Notification Mechanism: mailto Jan 2006 Feb 2008 Sieve Notification Mechanism: xmpp Mar 2006 Feb 2008 Sieve Email Filtering: MIME part Tests, Iteration, Extraction, Replacement and Enclosure Request For Comments: RFC Stat Published Title ------- -- ----------- ------------------------------------ RFC5228 PS Jan 2008 Sieve: An Email Filtering Language RFC5235 PS Jan 2008 SIEVE Email Filtering: Spamtest and Virustest Extensions RFC5229 PS Jan 2008 Sieve Email Filtering: Variables Extension RFC5230 PS Jan 2008 Sieve Email Filtering: Vacation Extension RFC5231 PS Jan 2008 Sieve Email Filtering: Relational Extension RFC5232 PS Jan 2008 SIEVE Email Filtering: IMAP4flag Extension RFC5233 PS Jan 2008 Sieve Email Filtering: Subaddress Extension