[exim] Re: Delivering sieve "inbox" to maildir

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Author: Paul Warren
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To: exim-users
Subject: [exim] Re: Delivering sieve "inbox" to maildir
On 22/07/2024 15:20, Jeremy Harris via Exim-users wrote:

> OK, that's an awkward mixture to handle.
>
> I suspect you're going to have to manually spot Sieve filters and
> handle them separately.


Thanks for the suggestions.  I think we're probably going to just tell
users that "inbox" (and thus "keep", and the default handling in case of
a filter error) are not supported in Sieve filters on our system.

> Then raise a wishlist item for Exim's Sieve handling to support
> a means for configuring something other than "inbox". I'm unsure
> if a free choice is warranted, perhaps just a choice of "inbox/".


I think the clean solution here would be an additional option on the
redirect router (e.g. sieve_inbox_path) that allows the location of
"inbox" to be specified.  This could then be handled the same way as any
other path generated by a filter file (i.e. transport determined by
whether it ends with "/" or not).

It would also avoid the need for the conditional expansion of "file" to
handle "inbox" in the simple case.

regards,

Paul


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