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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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