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[FYI] E-Mail filtering
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- Subject: [FYI] E-Mail filtering
- From: "Axel H Horns" <horns@ipjur.com>
- Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2000 17:41:29 +0200
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Vendors target e-mail overload
'Sieve' technology may become Internet standard.
By CAROLYN DUFFY MARSAN Network World, 08/28/00
Tired of slogging through hundreds of e-mail messages each day? An
emerging technology called Sieve touts a simple, universal way to
create filters for sorting, deleting and forwarding e-mail messages
before they enter your inbox.
Sieve is undergoing last-minute tweaking by engineers from Mirapoint,
Cyrusoft, Qualcomm and other e-mail vendors. These engineers recently
asked the leadership of the Internet Engineering Task Force to
approve Sieve as a standards-track protocol.
Sieve offers network managers several advantages over the filtering
capabilities available in today's leading e-mail packages, such as:
Providing a common way to create and share e-mail filters across
diverse e-mail systems.
Supporting server-side filtering, which means users don't have to
download e-mail they want filtered.
Prohibiting users from creating filters that would harm the
performance or security of the overall e-mail system.
Supporting graphical user interfaces (GUI) that make it easier for
end users and administrators to create filters.
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