Sieve (mail filtering language)
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Sieve is a programming language that can be used for email filtering. It owes its creation to the CMU Cyrus Project, creators of Cyrus IMAP server.
| Original author(s) | University of Washington and Carnegie Mellon University[1] and standardized by Tim Showalter |
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| Initial release | 1999; 24 years ago (1999)[1] |
| Operating system | Cross-platform |
| Type | Email filtering |
| Website | sieve |
The language is not tied to any particular operating system or mail architecture. It requires the use of RFC-2822–compliant messages, but otherwise should generalize to other systems that meet these criteria. The current version of Sieve's base specification is outlined in RFC 5228, published in January 2008.