noticeboard.ru.ac.za

As of this morning, the web based inteface to sieve that was available at http://www.ru.ac.za/sieve and http://imap.ru.ac.za/cgi-bin/websieve/websieve.pl is no longer accessible. This interface provided a way for users to set e-mail forwards, add filter rules to incoming e-mail and set access control lists on their mailboxes.

All the functionality that used to be provided by the websieve application is now provided in a more user-friendly form by the webmail client at http://www.ru.ac.za/webmail. In particular:

• You may set forwards and filters using the Filters option of the webmail client.
• You may set access control lists using the Shared folders section of the webmail client's Options menu.

Accesses to any of the old websieve URLs will result in an error message that contains this information.

One question that's come up a few times is what happens to exisiting sieve scripts. The answer is that they'll carry on functioning as-is, but you won't be able to edit them using ingo (whilst they're both interfaces to sieve, they use comments in their script files to store meta-information, and their meta-information formats are different). Any scripts you write in ingo will overwrite the websieve scripts, so the way to remove your legacy websieve script is to create a script of some form in ingo, and then delete it in ingo.