The IESG has approved the following document:
- 'Sieve Email Filtering: Include Extension'
(draft-ietf-sieve-include-15.txt) as a Proposed Standard
This document is the product of the Sieve Mail Filtering Language Working
Group.
The IESG contact persons are Pete Resnick and Peter Saint-Andre.
A URL of this Internet Draft is:
http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-sieve-include/
Technical Summary
The Sieve Email Filtering "include" extension permits users to
include one Sieve script inside another. This can make managing large
scripts or multiple sets of scripts much easier, and allows a site
and its users to build up libraries of scripts. Users are able to
include their own personal scripts or site-wide scripts.
Working Group Summary
This was a popular extension within the working group. It was under
active development for about a year and a half, during which time a
number of suggestions were discussed, and issues were ironed out. It
then went dormant for a year because the editors (also the two
chairs) were very busy, and the working group as a whole was very
quiet. Once revived, it was finished up with final editing. There are
no controversies at this point, and there were no major controversies
during the document's development.
Document Quality
The issues that were worked out during document development were
mostly dealing with how to specify the included scripts, how multiple
included scripts interact, and how to resolve conflicts among the
different scripts. The working group expects that this isn't the
final version, and that it will be updated after more experience in
practical use -- that is, what's here is appropriate for Proposed
Standard. There are at least two implementations of draft versions,
and at least two other implementors plan to implement the final
version.
Personnel
Barry Leiba <barryleiba(_at_)computer(_dot_)org> is the Document Shepherd.
Pete Resnick <presnick(_at_)qualcomm(_dot_)com> is the Responsible AD.
RFC Editor Note
Section 3.5, end of second paragraph (typo "foreverpart"):
OLD
A "stop" in an included script, even
within a "foreverpart" loop, still halts all script execution
NEW
A "stop" in an included script, even
within a "foreverypart" loop, still halts all script execution
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