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== Creating Sieve Filters ==

Our IMAP servers run 'ManageSieve', this is a service which clients talk to in order to create and edit sieve filters. ManageSieve runs on port 4190 on the IMAP servers. There are various clients which support ManageSieve, e.g.:

*RoundCube - our web

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*RoundCube - our webmail has a Filters option in the settings - We'd recommend this even if you don't usually use webmail.

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*[https://github.com/thsmi/sieve/releases Extension for Thunderbird] (fine for manually editing the script file) '''Important note:''' Use the latest version if the one from the Thunderbird is out of date. [https://github.com/thsmi/sieve/releases latest] version version 0.3 or higher should be ok.

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mail has a Filters option in the settings - We'd recommend this even if you don't usually use webmail.

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*[https://github.com/thsmi/sieve/releases Extension for Thunderbird] (fine for manually editing the script file) '''Important note:''' Use the latest version if the one from the Thunderbird is out of date. [https://github.com/thsmi/sieve/releases latest] version version 0.3 or higher should be ok. '''No longer works with Thunderbird versions dating from 2023'''.

*[https://www.claws-mail.org/plugin.php?plugin=managesieve Extension for claws-mail] (may be packaged as claws-mail-managesieve). Very similar to the Thunderbird extension.

*On Linux, you may find a '''sieve-connect''' package which is a command line tool.

*There are others, take a look at [http://sieve.info/clients sieve.info]. You'd use the same server, username and password that you do to access your email, and use port 4190, and TLS.