Ingmar Hosenfeld Reporter
	Description • 17 years ago

User-Agent:       Opera/9.23 (Windows NT 5.1; U; de)
Build Identifier: Eudora 8.0.b1

It would be a great feature to be able to define a filter that does not operate locally but directly on the server (IMAP). Especially helpful if you regularly use different machines to work with your mail on an IMAP server...
Second best solution: make the locally stored filter accessible easily, so they can be synchronized between machines.

Reproducible: Always

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	Matt Dudziak Assignee
	Comment 1 • 17 years ago

I'd be interested to know how many IMAP servers actually support Sieve. Most that I use do not.

I think the better solution is some sort or synchronization of filters between installations of Eudora 8.

Matt

	Ingmar Hosenfeld Reporter
	Comment 2 • 17 years ago

Hi Matt, 

I have no idea how many servers support sieve, but to me it seems pretty obvious that when I have my mail stored on a server it should also be sortet there. What's the point of having access to all your mail from everywhere when you only have one location that allows you to automate the sorting?

Allowing for synchronization between machines really is only second best because that way I'm forced to use Penelope everytime and everywhere I check my mail. Using any different client will leave all incoming mail in inbox (or require me to either sort by hand right there or manually apply filters on the gathered mails once I get back).
If goin for this (in my view inferior) solution, I would very much like to have Penelope handle the synchronization step all by itself (e.g. store the filters in some special folder on the server and have Penelope either check these against the locally stored ones or (better) use them directly from the server. Any chance of getting something like this implemented?

Ingmar

	Matt Dudziak Assignee
	Comment 3 • 17 years ago

(In reply to comment #2)
> Hi Matt, 
> 
> I have no idea how many servers support sieve, but to me it seems pretty
> obvious that when I have my mail stored on a server it should also be sortet
> there. 

I agree it would be nice to have server-side filtering, but chances are it would only work for a very small percentage of users. As I said, of all the IMAP servers I have used, I have only used one that supported Sieve, and it didn't have an interface for the client to create/edit them; you needed to be an administrator and use the web-based admin tool. Does your IMAP server support Sieve?


> Allowing for synchronization between machines really is only second best
> because that way I'm forced to use Penelope everytime and everywhere I check my
> mail. Using any different client will leave all incoming mail in inbox (or
> require me to either sort by hand right there or manually apply filters on the
> gathered mails once I get back).
> If goin for this (in my view inferior) solution, I would very much like to have
> Penelope handle the synchronization step all by itself (e.g. store the filters
> in some special folder on the server and have Penelope either check these
> against the locally stored ones or (better) use them directly from the server.
> Any chance of getting something like this implemented?

Sure it is _possible_, but we are trying to implement the features that either:
a) we think are the most important from the old Eudora 
or
b) Get the most votes on Bugzilla

If this auto-synchronization of filters gets enough votes, we'll look at it. Of course, this is all open-source so you are welcome to implement the feature yourself. As a matter of fact, it is possible that the feature could be implemented as an extension....


Regards,
Matt