Sieve Email Filtering: Delivering to Special-Use Mailboxes
RFC 8579
Document | Type | RFC - Proposed Standard (May 2019; Errata) | |
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Author | Stephan Bosch | ||
Last updated | 2020-01-20 | ||
Replaces | draft-bosch-sieve-special-use | ||
Stream | IETF | ||
Formats | plain text html pdf htmlized with errata bibtex | ||
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Stream | WG state | Submitted to IESG for Publication | |
Document shepherd | Jiankang Yao | ||
Shepherd write-up | Show (last changed 2018-12-05) | ||
IESG | IESG state | RFC 8579 (Proposed Standard) | |
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Consensus Boilerplate | Yes | ||
Telechat date | |||
Responsible AD | Alexey Melnikov | ||
Send notices to | Jiankang Yao <yaojk@cnnic.cn> | ||
IANA | IANA review state | IANA OK - Actions Needed | |
IANA action state | RFC-Ed-Ack |
Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) S. Bosch Request for Comments: 8579 Open Xchange Oy Category: Standards Track May 2019 ISSN: 2070-1721 Sieve Email Filtering: Delivering to Special-Use Mailboxes Abstract The SPECIAL-USE capability of the IMAP protocol (RFC 6154) allows clients to identify special-use mailboxes, e.g., where draft or sent messages should be put. This simplifies client configuration. In contrast, the Sieve mail filtering language (RFC 5228) currently has no such capability. This memo defines a Sieve extension that fills this gap: it adds a test for checking whether a special-use attribute is assigned for a particular mailbox or any mailbox, and it adds the ability to file messages into a mailbox identified solely by a special-use attribute. Status of This Memo This is an Internet Standards Track document. This document is a product of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF). It represents the consensus of the IETF community. It has received public review and has been approved for publication by the Internet Engineering Steering Group (IESG). Further information on Internet Standards is available in Section 2 of RFC 7841. Information about the current status of this document, any errata, and how to provide feedback on it may be obtained at https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc8579. Copyright Notice Copyright (c) 2019 IETF Trust and the persons identified as the document authors. All rights reserved. This document is subject to BCP 78 and the IETF Trust's Legal Provisions Relating to IETF Documents (https://trustee.ietf.org/license-info) in effect on the date of publication of this document. Please review these documents carefully, as they describe your rights and restrictions with respect to this document. Code Components extracted from this document must include Simplified BSD License text as described in Section 4.e of the Trust Legal Provisions and are provided without warranty as described in the Simplified BSD License. Bosch Standards Track [Page 1] RFC 8579 Sieve: Special-Use Mailboxes May 2019 Table of Contents 1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 2. Conventions Used in This Document . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 3. Test "specialuse_exists" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 3.1. Equivalent IMAP Operations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 4. ":specialuse" Argument to "fileinto" Command . . . . . . . . 5 4.1. Mailboxes Created Implicitly by the "fileinto" Command . 6 4.2. Equivalent IMAP Operations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 5. Sieve Capability Strings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 6. Examples . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 7. Security Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 8. IANA Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 9. References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 9.1. Normative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 9.2. Informative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 Acknowledgements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 Author's Address . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 1. Introduction Commonly, several mailboxes in an IMAP message store [IMAP] have a special use. For example, there can be a special-use mailbox for storing the user's draft messages, for keeping copies of sent messages, and for collecting spam messages that were classified as such at delivery. The SPECIAL-USE capability [SPECIAL-USE] of the IMAP protocol defines mailbox attributes that identify these special mailboxes explicitly to the client. This way, client configuration is simplified significantly. Using the CREATE-SPECIAL-USE capability [SPECIAL-USE], IMAP clients can also configure these attributes dynamically based on user preference. Unlike the IMAP protocol, the Sieve mail filtering language [SIEVE] currently cannot freely access these special-use mailbox attributes. Particularly, the Sieve interpreter has no means to identify a mailbox with a particular special-use attribute. This would be very useful, for example, to find the user's "Spam" mailbox at delivery. In Sieve, limited access to the special-use attributes is provided using the "mboxmetadata" extension [SIEVE-MAILBOX], which allows testing for the presence of a special-use attribute in the "/private/ specialuse" IMAP METADATA [IMAP-METADATA] entry of a mailbox. Still, not all implementers will be willing to add the complexity of the IMAP METADATA capability just to provide access to special-use attributes to the Sieve interpreter.Show full document text