Re: Comments on draft-melnikov-sieve-external-lists-02.txt

[Alexey Melnikov <alexey.melnikov@xxxxxxxxx>]

Дилян Палаузов wrote:

> Hello,
>
> > Would we need to have :list-is, :list-matches, :list-contains, or can 
> > we get away with just :list, which would check for the exact match?
>
> As far as I understood Ned, it is the list who decides on the exact 
> match type : it is not up to the script to prescribe the matching. So 
> "just :list".
>
> Any use cases where :list-is, :list-contains ... make sense and "just 
> :list" would be insufficient?

Ned has answered this nicely. I was thinking about substring matches 
(kind of simplified :matches), but this can be thought of as an 
implementation details. I.e. we can consider an external list to be 
black box.