Re: [nnimap] nnimap-split vs SIEVE script ?

[Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net>]

Xavier Maillard <lists.emacs.gnus@xavier.maillard.im> writes:

> Hello,
>
> same player, shoot again.
>
> This is a 2-questions-in-one message:
>
> * do you use both methods (and if so, why) ?
>
> * is there any possibility to connect to a remote SIEVE server from Gnus ?

When I switched from Google to self-hosted email, I switched from
client-side split to server-side SIEVE. It just seemed a bit silly to be
creating all that extra network traffic. The only thing I regret a tiny
bit is automatic splitting based on BBDB "imap" fields. Everything else
I had to write by hand anyway, and while it's definitely more of a pain
to do it in SIEVE, it's usually a one-time pain.

Emacs comes with a sieve.el package that can interact with a dovecot
sieve server. I tried it once without reading the documentation, screwed
it up, and didn't bother going back and doing it right. I'm sure it
works just fine, if you actually learn to use it :)

E