At 03:11 PM 2/11/99 -0500, Tim Showalter wrote:
Hi. This draft has some of the changes folks have asked for.
I have a few comments.
The spec should make a statement concerning the "case" of the
sieve language. Since there is no statement, I assume that
sieve language is case-sensitive and must be lower case as
shown in the examples.
In draft 6bis...
The test-list syntax element provides a way of grouping tests.
Example: if any-of (not exists ["From", "Date"],
^^^^^^ typo, should be anyof
header :contains "from" "fool(_at_)znic(_dot_)edu") {
...
For convienence, the MATCH-TYPE syntax element is defined here as
follows:
Syntax: [ < ":is" / ":contains" / ":matches" > <key: string> ]
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
This is incorrect, or at least misleading. This tagged argument does
not take an argument. This tagged argument does affect the key-list
argument which is positional and 2nd position on all commands. In
other words, the ":matches" tag does not allow for wild card matchs
on the header-names, only the key-list argument. This is similar to
the ":compartor" tag, except that it takes an argument.
In general, moving the tagged arguments before the positional arguments
results in some confusion because the tagged arguments and the positional
arguments which they affect may be interspersed with other arguments.
This, I think, makes sieve less intuitive. Nevertheless, my major need
is that we clearly specify the current sieve and resist the temptation
to tweak the language syntax, except for very good reasons.
...
The kind of comparison is done, such as whether or not the comparison
done is case-insensitive, is specified as a comparator argument to
the test.
add referrence to ADDRESS-PART, for example....
For convienence, the ADDRESS-PART syntax element is defined here as
follows:
Syntax: < ":localpart" / ":domain" / ":all" > ":localpart"
^^^^^^^^^^^^ typo?? remove
...
Example: if header :contains "from" "coyote" {
discard;
} elsif :contains header ["subject"] ["$$$"] {
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ syntax, header :contains
discard;
...
Example: if header :contains ["From"] ["coyote"] {
redirect "acm(_at_)frobnitzm(_dot_)edu";
} elsif header "Subject" contains "$$$" {
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ syntax, :contains "Subject"
redirect "postmaster(_at_)frobnitzm(_dot_)edu";
Greg Sereda