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Re: Updated regex and subaddress drafts

2001-08-31 07:58:50

On 2001-08-31 at 15:42 +0200, Simon Josefsson wrote:
(One obvious security consideration with the scheme is that someone is
able to spam you with mail that create lots of mailboxes.)

(my head's a bit muggy at the moment and I'm not thinking clearly, so if
 this is really stupid, please say so gently)

How feasible is it to have an :if-exists modifier-thingy for fileinto?
And a matching :even-if-doesn't-exist modifier?  And to make the
_default_ change if the filename is made using a backreference?

Desired behaviour, regardless of the above, is to make it easy to have a
fileinto-if-already-exists rule, especially for when the data comes in
over the network.  I also don't recall having seen anything in the
drafts on what the Sieve localpart literally consists of when the LHS of
the address is in double-quotes with non-atom characters in it.  Is the
Sieve view always the literal string of the LHS?  What mappings to
file-system level character restrictions should be considered when using
the proposed backreferences?  quoted-pair to character translations?
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