Re: Sieve extension to expire mails?

[Rob Siemborski <rjs3@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 11 Mar 2004 ned.freed@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> But regardless of the expiration model, this proposal seems to me to be
> putting the cart before the horse - we'd need to define an IMAP expiration
> extension before it is reasonable to extend sieve to support it. And such a
> sieve extension only makes sense if the model chosen for expirations is
> per-message.

There's nothing that says we need an IMAP extension for expiration before
defining a sieve extension for expiration.  Sieve can work in enviornments
other than IMAP.

You could also have a sieve implementation that ran against the current
contents of a mailbox iteratively, and threw out (or refiled) all messages
older than the expiration date, for example [though I suppose this relies
more on a date comparison extension than any particular "Expire"
extension].

-Rob

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