706589 - Allow configuring server side filters (Zimbra)

Status: NEW

(MailNews Core :: Filters, enhancement)

Description

[Hubert Figuiere [:hub]]

That would be terrific is Thunderbird allowed to configure server side filters (on Zimbra).

Ideally the system would be generic to allow plugins as there seems to be no standard for this.

Comment 1

[Ludovic Hirlimann [:Usul]]

someone would need to finnish sieve support in bug 79525 - it's been almost ready for two years now and "just needs" to be published as an extension.

Comment 2

[Hubert Figuiere [:hub]]

Zimbra use Sieve?

Because at that point what I want it to be able to configure the filters on Zimbra from T-Bird (not sure if that is even possible, that would be even more sad)

Comment 3

[Ludovic Hirlimann [:Usul]]

(In reply to Hub Figuiere [:hub] from comment #2)
> Zimbra use Sieve?
> 
> Because at that point what I want it to be able to configure the filters on
> Zimbra from T-Bird (not sure if that is even possible, that would be even
> more sad)

Not that I know of but I didn't check. Sieve is a standard so we should start by that.

Comment 4

[Dave Miller [:justdave]]

Zimbra actually does use Sieve. :)  Or at least it uses Sieve's config file format if you pull a user's raw config (there's an LDAP attribute on your user record that has a Sieve script base64-encoded as binary data in it).

Almost anything you can do in Zimbra can be done via SOAP/JSON (in fact, the Zimbra Desktop Client and the Zimbra Web Client are both standalone client apps that communicate with the server via that SOAP protocol).

Docs are in a directory on the installed Zimbra server, I dropped a copy here: https://people.mozilla.com/~justdave/zmsoapdocs/

GetFilterRulesRequest and ModifyFilterRulesRequest would be the relevant commands here.