On 5/6/2014 12:43 PM, T.B. wrote:
Dear Stephan Bosch, dear Dovecot community,
"sieve-filter" re-filtering of existing mails is already a great progress for everyone using sieve! But as far as I know this functionality is just accessible by the server administrator.
In the meanwhile everyone knows the comfort of re-executing filter scripts on his own existing mailboxes - triggered by himself!
This service is already very widespread. Examples are MUA's like Outlook or Thunderbird which provide this service just on the client side. Or almost every web-mail provider offers this.
Is there already an managesieve protocol extension that allows client triggered server side re-filtering?
If not, maybe you could design a RFC for this?
I proposed something like this in the past, but it didn't catch much attention.
For now, there's this:
https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6785
It could be used to create a magic folder that does the re-filtering when a message is moved to it.
In any case, functionality like this is a prerequisite for implementing what you desire. Once this is implemented (there are plans, albeit not very concrete), we can propose a new extension.
Regards,
Stephan.