-. $Cambridge: exim/doc/doc-docbook/filter.xfpt,v 1.6 2007/04/17 13:06:09 ph10 Exp $
+. $Cambridge: exim/doc/doc-docbook/filter.xfpt,v 1.7 2007/08/29 13:37:28 ph10 Exp $
. /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
. This is the primary source of the document that describes Exim's filtering
<bookinfo>
<title>Exim's interfaces to mail filtering</title>
<titleabbrev>Exim filtering</titleabbrev>
-<date>17 April 2007</date>
+<date>23 August 2007</date>
<author><firstname>Philip</firstname><surname>Hazel</surname></author>
<authorinitials>PH</authorinitials>
<revhistory><revision>
- <revnumber>4.67</revnumber>
- <date>17 April 2007</date>
+ <revnumber>4.68</revnumber>
+ <date>23 August2007</date>
<authorinitials>PH</authorinitials>
</revision></revhistory>
<copyright><year>2007</year><holder>University of Cambridge</holder></copyright>
.chapter "Forwarding and filtering in Exim" "CHAPforandfilt"
This document describes the user interfaces to Exim's in-built mail filtering
facilities, and is copyright © University of Cambridge 2007. It
-corresponds to Exim version 4.67.
+corresponds to Exim version 4.68.
This chapter does not contain a description of Sieve, since that can be found
in RFC 3028, which should be read in conjunction with these notes.
-.new
The Exim Sieve implementation offers the core as defined by RFC 3028,
comparison tests, the subaddress parameter, the &*copy*&, &*envelope*&,
&*fileinto*&, &*notify*&, and &*vacation*& extensions, but not the &*reject*&
extension. Exim does not support message delivery notifications (MDNs), so
adding it just to the Sieve filter (as required for &*reject*&) makes little
sense.
-.wen
In order for Sieve to work properly in Exim, the system administrator needs to
make some adjustments to the Exim configuration. These are described in the
&` [log `&<&'log file name'&>&`]`&
&` [once `&<&'note file name'&>&`]`&
&` [once_repeat `&<&'time interval'&>&`]`&
-
&`e.g. mail text "Your message about $h_subject: has been received"`&
.endd
Each <&'address-list'&> can contain a number of addresses, separated by commas,