At 09:40 AM 2/18/99 UT, Edward Hibbert wrote:
What do other implementors think?
Tim made a good point that vacation serves as an example of
how to write a sieve extension.
However, adding vacation to the sieve draft has some advantages:
- easier to find/understand since it is in one place.
- easier to maintain for same reason, eg last draft example
was using the older "forward" rather than "redirect".
- provides needed functionality since "reply" was removed
from the sieve standard.
If Edward's customers need vacation functionality, I am not sure
they will feel better knowing they can't have it because it is
an "extension" to sieve rather than a "optional" feature of sieve,
unless they are unaware the "vacation" extension exists.
In the end, I'll defer to Tim's judgement, since most of the
burden rests on him to shepherd another draft through the process.
From a technical perspective, there is no difference between an
"optional" feature in sieve and an "extension" of sieve.
Greg Sereda