I recommend reading the RFC: 2.10.2 https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc5228#section-2.10.2 is where the Implicit Keep is described.
Basically, if you don’t take action on a message, there is an “implicit keep” that will save the mail in the default location. If an action *is* taken on a message (that results in it being saved somewhere; i.e., ‘fileinto’), then the implicit keep is removed (since you have explicitly said where to put it).
So there’s the “keep” keyword (see 4.3 https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc5228#section-4.3), to “do what you would do in the implicit keep” (more or less).
So:
fileinto :create “ac” -> puts the message into “ac” and removes “implicit keep” keep -> puts implicit keep back (more or less)
fileinto :copy :create “ac” -> puts a *COPY* of the message into “ac”, and the original retains “implicit keep”.
They do the same thing, though I try and avoid unnecessary extensions when I can.
Sean
On Aug 24, 2022, at 07:29, João Silva joaopfmlist@lipc.fis.uc.pt wrote:
On 23/08/2022 13:03, Rob Sterenborg (Lists) wrote:
On 23-08-2022 11:44, João Silva wrote:
Hi
If a sieve filter contains a rule
if header :regex ["From"] ["@xxx.com","@yyy.pt"] { fileinto :create "ac"; }
The mail should be copied to the folder ac and then proceed to other rules that a user might have or I understood the
fileinto
wrong?
Using dovecot-pigeonhole-2.2.36-8.el7.x86_64
I use it like this, and it works for me:
if address :is "From" "sender@domain" { fileinto :create "some_mail_folder"; stop; }
Almost 20 years ago, I figured out that I *need* the "stop;" line, but I don't remember why.
The stop; is needed to prevent further script actions on the email and that is a very curious thing that I dont know if falls in the "bug or feature" field.
if I use
if header :regex ["From"] ["@xxx.com","@yyy.pt"] { fileinto :create "ac";
keep;}
It delivers the mail in my Inbox which was my intention in the first place.
When I used the filter without the keep; and since I didn't had the stop; I was expecting further actions on that email that will lead to the email end up in the Inbox and that didn't happened.
So it apears that the fileinto rule have a stop; into it without the stop being declared.
In a complex mail management scenario that can cause problems. So my question is, "bug or feature"?
-- Rob