Sieve Mail Filtering Language (sieve)
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Charter
Last Modified: 2007-12-17
Current Status: Active Working Group
Chair(s):
Cyrus Daboo <cyrus@daboo.name>
Alexey Melnikov <alexey.melnikov@isode.com>
Applications Area Director(s):
Chris Newman <chris.newman@sun.com>
Lisa Dusseault <lisa@osafoundation.org>
Applications Area Advisor:
Lisa Dusseault <lisa@osafoundation.org>
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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 <Filename>
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Feb 2005 Mar 2008 <draft-ietf-sieve-body-09.txt>
Sieve Email Filtering: Body Extension
Feb 2005 Feb 2008 <draft-ietf-sieve-editheader-10.txt>
Sieve Email Filtering: Editheader Extension
May 2005 Dec 2007 <draft-ietf-sieve-refuse-reject-06.txt>
Sieve Email Filtering: Extensions for Rejecting Messages
Sep 2005 Dec 2007 <draft-ietf-sieve-notify-12.txt>
SIEVE Email Filtering: Extension for Notifications
Dec 2005 Mar 2008 <draft-ietf-sieve-notify-mailto-07.txt>
Sieve Notification Mechanism: mailto
Jan 2006 Feb 2008 <draft-ietf-sieve-notify-xmpp-09.txt>
Sieve Notification Mechanism: xmpp
Mar 2006 Feb 2008 <draft-ietf-sieve-mime-loop-04.txt>
Sieve Email Filtering: MIME part Tests, Iteration, Extraction,
Replacement and Enclosure
Request For Comments:
RFC Stat Published Title
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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