[dev] filters

[Edwin Culp]

I just want to say that I have been using the imap filters for a couple of days now
and find myself becoming more and more dependent on them.  This is an important
step forward for making IMP more efficient, at least in my opinion.  Thanks, Max
for contributing this solution.  Thanks. Anil, Chuck and Jon for your value add.

ed

Chuck Hagenbuch wrote:

> Quoting Anil Madhavapeddy <anil@recoil.org>:
>
> > Just got Max's filter stuff working, and I must say it looks very
> > nice and seems to work very well from my initial testing.
> >
> > Just wondering why it's in IMP itself though; wasn't the idea to
> > make all this a separate module?
>
> Well, because this particular implementation doesn't rely on anything other than
> IMAP operations (and preferences). Anything that deals with procmail, sieve, etc
> _should_ be outside of IMP, but I'm willing to have this as a compromise for
> people who want filtering _in_ IMP. It's not as efficient or powerful as
> procmail and friends, but it will work for everyone.
>
> -chuck