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Re: [sieve] [draft-melnikov-sieve-external-lists] Proposed Addition To Section 2.4



On Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 8:14 PM, Alexey
Melnikov<alexey.melnikov at isode.com> wrote:
> Robert Burrell Donkin wrote:
>
>> On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 10:30 PM, Alexey
>> Melnikov<alexey.melnikov at isode.com> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> [I am catching up with the mailing list, so stay with me if this was
>>> already
>>> discussed]
>>>
>>> Robert Burrell Donkin wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 8:39 AM, Barry
>>>> Leiba<barryleiba.mailing.lists at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> <snip>
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> I'll also point out that in most cases (us geeks
>>>>> notwithstanding), the script will be generated under the covers.  So
>>>>> the user might, indeed, just type "MyList", and the icky-looking URI
>>>>> would be filled in for her.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> how might such a generator discover how to map "MyList" to
>>>> "tag:MyList" (say) in an interoperable fashion?
>>>>
>>>
>>> I am thinking this should be a ManageSieve extension, so that the Sieve
>>> engine can signal which URI types it supports.
>>>
>>
>> this would be useful but how does it answer the specific question i posed
>> above?
>>
>
> The answer to your question depends on how the generator is interacting with
> the Sieve engine. If it is using ManageSieve to read/write Sieve scripts, it
> can use  a ManageSieve capability.

how does understanding what URI types a sieve engine supports help
with the mapping problem i asked about?

- robert

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