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Sieve Mail Filtering Language (sieve)

Last Modified: 2008-12-15

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Chair(s):

Applications Area Director(s):

Applications Area Advisor:

Lisa Dusseault <Lisa.Dusseault@messagingarchitects.com>

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Description of Working Group:

The SIEVE email filtering language is specified in RFC 5228, together
with a number of extensions.

The SIEVE working group is being re-chartered to:

(1) Finish work on existing in-progress Working Group documents:
(a) Notify mailto (draft-ietf-sieve-notify-mailto)
(c) Mime loops (draft-ietf-sieve-mime-loop)
(d) Refuse/reject (draft-ietf-sieve-refuse-reject)

(2) Finalize and publish the following SIEVE extensions as proposed
standards:
(a) iHave (draft-freed-sieve-ihave)
(b) Notary (draft-freed-sieve-notary)
(c) SIEVE in XML (draft-freed-sieve-in-xml)
(d) Notify-sip (draft-melnikov-sieve-notify-sip-message)
(e) ManageSIEVE (draft-martin-managesieve)
(f) RegEx (draft-ietf-sieve-regex)
(g) Meta-data (draft-melnikov-sieve-imapext-metadata)
(h) Include/multi-script (draft-daboo-sieve-include)
(i) Address data (draft-melnikov-sieve-external-lists)
(j) Support for Sieve in IMAP (draft-ietf-lemonade-imap-sieve)

Additional drafts may be added to 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.

(3) Work on a specification to describe how EAI/IDN issues should be
handled in SIEVE.

(4) Work on a "Benefits of SIEVE" guide for client and server vendors that:
(a) Describes the SIEVE protocol and its suite of extensions.
(b) Explains the benefits of server-side filtering in practical terms.
(c) Shows how client-side filtering can be migrated to SIEVE.

(5) Produce one or more informational RFCs containing a set of test
scripts and test email messages that are to be filtered by the scripts,
and the expected results of that filtering. This will serve as the basis
of a interoperability test suite to help determine the suitability of
moving the base specification and selected extensions to Draft status.

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
Done		Submit 3028bis to IESG
Done		Submit editheader draft to IESG
Done		Submit body test draft to IESG
Done		WG last call for notification action draft
Done		Submit notification action draft to IESG
Done		Submit refuse-reject to IESG
Done		Submit notify-mailto to IESG
Done		WGLC iHave
Done		Submit mime-loops to IESG
Done		WGLC Notary
Done		Submit iHave to IESG
Oct 2008		WGLC sieve-in-xml
Done		Submit Notary to IESG
Nov 2008		Submit sieve-in-xml to IESG
Done		WGLC ManageSIEVE
Dec 2008		WGLC Notify-sip
Done		Submit ManageSIEVE to IESG
Jan 2009		Submit Notify-sip to IESG
Done		WGLC Metadata
Feb 2009		WGLC RegEx
Done		Submit Metadata to IESG
Mar 2009		Submit RegEx to IESG
Mar 2009		WGLC Include/multi-script
Apr 2009		Submit Include/multi-script to IESG
Apr 2009		WGLC external-lists
May 2009		Submit external-lists to IESG
May 2009		WGLC eai-issues
Jun 2009		Submit eai-issues to IESG
Jun 2009		WGLC benefits
Jul 2009		Submit benefits to IESG
Jul 2009		Submit benefits to IESG
Aug 2009		Submit test-scripts to IESG

Internet-Drafts:

Sieve Email Filtering: Reject and Extended Reject Extensions (0 bytes)
Sieve Email Filtering: MIME part Tests, Iteration, Extraction, Replacement and Enclosure (0 bytes)
The Sieve mail filtering language - extensions for checking mailbox status and accessing mailbox metadata (0 bytes)
Sieve Email Filtering: Ihave Extension (0 bytes)
Sieve Email Filtering: Delivery Status Notifications Extension (0 bytes)
A Protocol for Remotely Managing Sieve Scripts (0 bytes)
Sieve Notification Mechanism: SIP MESSAGE (0 bytes)

Request For Comments:

Sieve: An Email Filtering Language (RFC 5228) (87531 bytes) updated by RFC 5229
Sieve Email Filtering: Subaddress Extension (RFC 5233) (12448 bytes) obsoletes RFC 3598
SIEVE Email Filtering: IMAP4flag Extension (RFC 5232) (21964 bytes)
Sieve Email Filtering: Relational Extension (RFC 5231) (15243 bytes) obsoletes RFC 3431
Sieve Email Filtering: Vacation Extension (RFC 5230) (29822 bytes)
Sieve Email Filtering: Variables Extension (RFC 5229) (20023 bytes) updates RFC 5228/ updated by RFC 5173
SIEVE Email Filtering: Spamtest and Virustest Extensions (RFC 5235) (25957 bytes) obsoletes RFC 3685
Sieve Email Filtering: Body Extension (RFC 5173) (17429 bytes) updates RFC 5229
Sieve Email Filtering: Editheader Extension (RFC 5293) (17674 bytes)
Sieve Notification Mechanism: mailto (RFC 5436) (26519 bytes) updates RFC 3834
Sieve Notification Mechanism: xmpp (RFC 5437) (28448 bytes)
SIEVE Email Filtering: Extension for Notifications (RFC 5435) (36181 bytes)