Internet Engineering Task Force

Sieve Mail Filtering Language (sieve)

Last Modified: 2010-06-08

Additional information is available at tools.ietf.org/wg/sieve

Chair(s):

Applications Area Director(s):

Applications Area Advisor:

Alexey Melnikov <alexey.melnikov@isode.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) External lists (draft-ietf-sieve-external-lists)
(b) Notify SIP (draft-ietf-sieve-notify-sip-message)
(c) RegEx (draft-ietf-sieve-regex)
(d) Include/multi-script (draft-ietf-sieve-include)
(e) Sieve in IMAP (draft-ietf-sieve-imap-sieve)

(2) Finalize and publish the following SIEVE extensions as proposed
standards:
(a) General Auto-reply (draft-george-sieve-autoreply)
(b) Notify presence (draft-george-sieve-notify-presence)
(c) Vacation time (draft-george-sieve-vacation-time)
(d) Convert messages (draft-melnikov-sieve-convert)

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 for iCalendar and vCard extraction, and
cooperate with the VCARDDAV WG for address book tests in Sieve.

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

(5) 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.

(6) 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
Done		Submit Notary to IESG
Done		WGLC sieve-in-xml
Done		WGLC ManageSIEVE
Done		Submit sieve-in-xml to IESG
Done		Submit ManageSIEVE to IESG
Done		WGLC Notify-sip
Done		WGLC Metadata
Done		Submit Metadata to IESG
Done		Publish refuse/reject - RFC 5429
Done		Publish notify base spec - RFC 5435
Done		Publish notify mailto extension - RFC 5436
Done		Publish notify xmpp extension - RFC 5437
Done		Publish ihave - RFC 5463
Done		Publish meta-data - RFC 5490
Done		Publish mime loops - RFC 5703
Done		Publish Sieve in XML - RFC 5784
Done		Revised RegEx draft
Apr 2010		Revised Include/multi-script draft
Apr 2010		WGLC external-lists
May 2010		WGLC Include/multi-script
May 2010		Submit external-lists to IESG
Jun 2010		Submit Include/multi-script to IESG
Jun 2010		WGLC Notify-SIP
Jul 2010		Initial eai-issues draft
Jul 2010		Submit Notify-sip to IESG
Aug 2010		WGLC RegEx
Aug 2010		Initial test-scripts draft
Aug 2010		Initial benefits draft
Sep 2010		Submit RegEx to IESG
Oct 2010		WGLC eai-issues
Nov 2010		Submit eai-issues to IESG
Nov 2010		WGLC benefits
Jan 2011		Submit benefits to IESG
Mar 2011		WGLC test-scripts
Apr 2011		Submit test-scripts to IESG

Internet-Drafts:

Sieve Email Filtering: Regular Expression Extension (17224 bytes)
Sieve Email Filtering: Delivery Status Notifications and Deliver-By Extensions (30658 bytes)
A Protocol for Remotely Managing Sieve Scripts (102466 bytes)
Sieve Email Filtering: Include Extension (24035 bytes)
Sieve Extension: Externally Stored Lists (16773 bytes)
Support for Sieve in Internet Message Access Protocol (IMAP4) (39168 bytes)
Sieve Vacation Extension: "Seconds" parameter (8463 bytes)
Sieve Notification Using Presence Information (13330 bytes)
Sieve Email Filtering: Use of Presence Information with Auto Responder functionality (17155 bytes)
Sieve Extension for converting messages before delivery (7083 bytes)

Request For Comments: