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SIEVE Email Filtering: Spamtest and VirusTest Extensions

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Network Working Group                                           C. Daboo
Request for Comments: 3685                  Cyrusoft International, Inc.
Category: Standards Track                                  February 2004


        SIEVE Email Filtering: Spamtest and VirusTest Extensions

Status of this Memo

   This document specifies an Internet standards track protocol for the
   Internet community, and requests discussion and suggestions for
   improvements.  Please refer to the current edition of the "Internet
   Official Protocol Standards" (STD 1) for the standardization state
   and status of this protocol.  Distribution of this memo is unlimited.

Copyright Notice

   Copyright (C) The Internet Society (2004).  All Rights Reserved.

Abstract

   The SIEVE mail filtering language "spamtest" and "virustest"
   extensions permit users to use simple, portable commands for spam and
   virus tests on email messages.  Each extension provides a new test
   using matches against numeric 'scores'.  It is the responsibility of
   the underlying SIEVE implementation to do the actual checks that
   result in values returned by the tests.

Table of Contents

   1.  Introduction and Overview  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  2
   2.  SIEVE Extensions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  3
       2.1.  General Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  3
       2.2.  Test spamtest. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  3
       2.3.  Test virustest . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  4
   3.  Security Considerations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  5
   4.  IANA Considerations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  6
       4.1.  spamtest registration. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  6
       4.2.  virustest registration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  6
   5.  References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  7
       5.1.  Normative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  7
       5.2.  Informative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  7
   6.  Acknowledgments  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  7
   7.  Intellectual Property Rights Statement . . . . . . . . . . . .  7
   8.  Author's Address . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  8
   9.  Full Copyright Statement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  9





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