Discard mail with from date older than xxxx

Trever L. Adams trever at middleearth.sapphiresunday.org
Thu Jan 24 15:01:02 EET 2019


On 1/24/19 12:15 AM, Per Jessen wrote:
> Trever L. Adams wrote:
>
>> I know that sieve doesn't do math. The file would be created
>> externally.
>>
>> Based on examples in section 4.4 of
>> https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5260#section-4
>>
>> I figured something like this would work.
>>
>> if date :value "le" :originalzone "date" "date" "2018-10-25" {
>> fileinto "SPAM";
>> stop;
>> }
>>
>> However, I get the following.
>>
>> spam: line 41: error: unknown tagged argument ':value' for the date
>> test (reported only once at first occurrence).
>> spam: error: validation failed.
>> sievec(root): Fatal: failed to compile sieve script 'spam.sieve'
>>
>> Does anyone have any advice on how to get this working?
> Hi Trever
>
> here is a snippet I use occasionally:
>
> if allof(
> currentdate :zone "+0200" :value "ge" "iso8601" "2017-09-04T00:00:00+02:00",
> currentdate :zone "+0200" :value "le" "iso8601" "2017-09-06T18:09:00+02:00"
> )
>
>
> HTH
> Per


Please, correct me if I am wrong. This looks at the system clock. I need
to look at the date in the email (Date header). I am trying to catch
spam that hides 6-9 months in the past (in the last week I have had two
from August 2018 show up... obviously forged header, but...).

Thanks.

Trever


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