[ingo] Generating Full From Header Sieve Script

Jan Schneider jan at horde.org
Fri Dec 12 12:03:42 UTC 2014


Zitat von Robert Susmilch <robert at rootunlimited.com>:

> Hello,
>
> I've been pulling my hair out trying to figure this out.  I want to  
> generate a dovecot sieve filter based on the plain text From name.
>
> For example, if I create a rule to match "From contains Doe" in ingo  
> filter web page in horde I expect it to filter out any From header  
> that contains a last name "Doe" in it.
>
> This does not work, it only matches the email address, not the plain  
> text name.  So a From header like "From: John Doe  
> <john1966 at yahoo.com>" will filter on the search "John" but not "Doe"  
> since "Doe" appears only in the plain text name and not the actual  
> email address.
>
> Ingo generates something like this
>
> if address :all :comparator "i;ascii-casemap" :contains "From" "Doe"  {
>     fileinto "JohnDoe";
> }
>
> If I create a filter from ISPConfig I get
>
> if header :regex    ["from"] [".*Doe"] {
>     fileinto "JohnDoe";
>     stop;
> }

Then why do you use a regexp test in Ingo?

> If I replace the "address :all" with "header" like this it works as  
> expected from any address
>
> if header :comparator "i;ascii-casemap" :contains "From" "Doe"  {
>     fileinto "JohnDoe";
>     stop;
> }
>
> This question was asked over two years ago with no response, see  
> http://marc.info/?l=ingo&m=134753061816855&w=2
>
> Any ideas on how to either get this to work in this manner? It would  
> make creating simple rules such as anything from say a family last  
> name get filtered into one folder simply by searching the last name,  
> versus applying many different email addresses to the filter.
>
> Thanks,
> Robert
>
> Here's the other email from two years ago below
> ---------------------------------------------------------------
> Hi list,
>
> I have a small problem with the Ingo generated sieve script.
> I am trying to filter by the plaintext name in the From header field (not
> a mail address!).
>
> Ingo generates the following if-condition:
>
> if address :all :comparator "i;ascii-casemap" :contains "From" "Some
> Name"  {
>
> which does not match if I have incoming mail with a header line like this:
>
> From: Some Name <email at address>
>
> What works is the following sieve line:
>
> if header :comparator "i;ascii-casemap" :contains "From" "Some Name"  {
>
> However I can't get Ingo to generate something like this. Even if I use
> the custom header field with "From" it is just transformed back into a
> normal "From" rule.
>
> Bye
> Sebastian
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