Pigeonhome Sieve: check existence of a folder?

AvV dovecot at avv.solutions
Sun Mar 3 15:32:34 EET 2019


Hello,

Thank you for your answer.

That's what I tried at first, but got error message from the editor 
(tb60+sieve)

Seems to be ok now.

Thanks for the help, I tried*mailboxexists("xxx")* instead 
of*mailboxexists "xxx"* which I did not find as such n the doc.

Cheers

On 2/28/19 11:37 AM, Martin Johannes Dauser via dovecot wrote:
> What about extension "mailbox"?
> https://wiki.dovecot.org/Pigeonhole/Sieve
> https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5490#section-3
>
> A simple example (not tested, but should work):
>
> note:
> + I use '/' instead of '.' as hierarchical separator
> + stop; stops the whole script, but you could use elsif instead.
>
> require ["fileinto", "mailbox"];
>
> if header :contains "header's name" "aaa" {
>      if mailboxexists "INBOX/aaa" {
>          fileinto "INBOX/aaa";
>          stop;
>      }
> }
>
> if header :contains "header's name" "def" {
>      if mailboxexists  "INBOX/def" {
>          fileinto "INBOX/def";
>          stop;
>      }
> }
>
> Greetings Martin
>
>
>
>
> On Thu, 2019-02-28 at 10:42 +0100, AvV via dovecot wrote:
>> Dear All,
>>
>> Thanks ofr the great job so far.
>>
>> I have crawled the doc & web, and did not find oh to check for the
>> presence of a folder ina  a mailbox?
>>
>> I know about "fileinto :create" of course, but the purpose is
>> slightly
>> different: I want to automate the move into a folder based on some
>> rules
>> but *only if* an associated folder is present (which name is based
>> on
>> the rule), otherwise I will do a form of catch-all.
>>
>> Example:
>>
>> - INBOX
>>        +- abc
>>        +- def
>>
>> - Rule detects "aaa" in someheader field: folder "aaa" not present"
>> ->
>> continue;
>>
>> - Rule detect "def" in some header field: "def exists" -> fileinto
>> "def"
>>      ; stop;
>>
>> Any help appreciated.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> A/
>>
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