[Mailman-Developers] Anybody looking for an insane project?

[David Brown]

RFC 5228 seems to obsolete RFC 3028. Okay, I think I found the project here:
http://sieve.info/

The most python-y thing I could find is on their servers page; they list
pysieved (Python Managesieve Server) but the link 404s. Looks like the
programmer's site is still running, though... looks like you could get the
files here: http://woozle.org/~neale/gitweb.cgi?p=pysieved;a=tree  This
doesn't appear to be an implementation of the sieve *language*, though...
it's a script management tool. 

Would it be necessary to implement the sieve language in Python or would it
be possible to just use one of the existing C libraries? (libSieve is under
LGPL)

Dave
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David Brown
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-----Original Message-----
From: mailman-developers-bounces+dave=aasv.org at python.org
[mailto:mailman-developers-bounces+dave=aasv.org at python.org] On Behalf Of
Barry Warsaw
Sent: Wednesday, December 09, 2009 12:01 PM
To: Mailman Developers
Subject: [Mailman-Developers] Anybody looking for an insane project?

If anybody is looking for something cool, crazy, and experimental to work on
for Mailman 3, I have am idea that would fun to explore if I had more free
time.

I wonder if RFC 3028[1] could be useful in Mailman.  This RFC defines the
Sieve language for mail filtering.  I seem to recall that there's a Python
implementation of it, but atm I cannot find it.  It's probably most
appropriate for advanced users, but perhaps the new web ui could provide
some simple access to the more common actions.

Some places where it would be useful:

* list admins for filtering out off-topic posts
* site admins for filtering out known spammers
* a better user-defined topic selection machinery
* users for defining which of their registered addresses to deliver to

I'm sure we'd think of lots more cool and wacky ways to use this if we had
it.

So, who'd like to take up the challenge?

-Barry

[1] http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc3028.html

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