Sieve-Example:Move email to a suffix folder
Description
Say you have a single mailbox:
me@example.com
And you want to give out 'unique' addresses to companies so that you can control who has your address and helps you track and filter your email. You may want to give out addresses such as:
me-amazon@example.com me-ebay@example.com
This is all possible with two things:
- An alias - set on the Control Pages
- A sieve filter
Alias
On the control pages, in the email setup, under aliases create an alias such as:
Sieve filter
require ["fileinto","imap4flags","variables","regex","mailbox"];
## filter messages sent to an address with a suffix eg, me-amazon@example.org.uk in to a folder called amazon if it exists.
if exists "X-Delivered-To" {
if header :regex "X-Delivered-To" "me-([A-z0-9]+)@" {
set :lower "suffix" "${1}";
fileinto "INBOX.Filtered.${suffix}";
}
stop;}
Change the me - to be your mailbox name (localpart)
- You'll need to add this sieve filter - eg by using the Thunderbird Sieve extension, see Sieve_Server_Settings for info
- This won't be able to be added via Roundcube, as you can't paste in raw sieve code there.
Create folder
The sieve filter puts email in to a folder called Filtered/XXX, and as long as XXX matches the suffix in the email address, the messages will get moved to there. So,
- create a folder called: Filtered
- create folders within Filtered for the suffix you want filtered there