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The Sieve Mail-Filtering Language -- Extensions for Checking Mailbox Status and Accessing Mailbox Metadata
RFC 5490

Document Type RFC - Proposed Standard (March 2009)
Author Alexey Melnikov
Last updated 2015-10-14
RFC stream Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF)
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RFC 5490
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     Capability name: mboxmetadata
     Description: adds tests for checking for mailbox metadata item
                  existence and for retrieving of a mailbox metadata
                  value.
     RFC number: this RFC
     Contact address:
         The Sieve discussion list <ietf-mta-filters@imc.org>

     Capability name: servermetadata
     Description: adds tests for checking for server metadata item
                  existence and for retrieving of a server metadata
                  value.
     RFC number: this RFC
     Contact address:
         The Sieve discussion list <ietf-mta-filters@imc.org>

7.  Acknowledgements

   Thanks to Cyrus Daboo for initial motivation for this document.

   Thanks to Barry Leiba, Randall Gellens, and Aaron Stone for helpful
   comments on this document.

   The author also thanks the Open Mobile Alliance's Mobile Email
   working group for providing a set of requirements for mobile devices,
   guiding some of the extensions in this document.

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RFC 5490                     Sieve METADATA                   March 2009

8.  References

8.1.  Normative References

   [ABNF]       Crocker, D. and P. Overell, "Augmented BNF for Syntax
                Specifications: ABNF", STD 68, RFC 5234, January 2008.

   [IMAP]       Crispin, M., "Internet Message Access Protocol - Version
                4rev1", RFC 3501, March 2003.

   [IMAPACL]    Melnikov, A., "IMAP4 Access Control List (ACL)
                Extension", RFC 4314, December 2005.

   [KEYWORDS]   Bradner, S., "Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate
                Requirement Levels", BCP 14, RFC 2119, March 1997.

   [METADATA]   Daboo, C., "The IMAP METADATA Extension", RFC 5464,
                February 2009.

   [SIEVE]      Guenther, P. and T. Showalter, "Sieve: An Email
                Filtering Language", RFC 5228, January 2008.

8.2.  Informative References

   [NOTIFY]     Melnikov, A., Leiba, B., Segmuller, W., and T. Martin,
                "Sieve Email Filtering: Extension for Notifications",
                RFC 5435, January 2009.

   [REJECT]     Stone, A., "Sieve Email Filtering: Reject and Extended
                Reject Extensions", RFC 5429, March 2009.

   [VACATION]   Showalter, T. and N. Freed, "Sieve Email Filtering:
                Vacation Extension", RFC 5230, January 2008.

   [VARIABLES]  Homme, K., "Sieve Email Filtering: Variables Extension",
                RFC 5229, January 2008.

Author's Address

   Alexey Melnikov
   Isode Limited
   5 Castle Business Village
   36 Station Road
   Hampton, Middlesex  TW12 2BX
   UK

   EMail: Alexey.Melnikov@isode.com

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