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Contents 1 Sieve Examples 2 Simple Examples 2.1 SanjaySieveSpamFilter 2.2 SieveVacation 2.3 SieveRecipes 2.4 Vivil 2.5 Jerry's Sieve 3 Advanced Examples 3.1 Filter Mailing Lists into Folders 3.2 MrElvey's Examples 3.3 MoreSieveExamples 3.4 MatthewJohnson's Example Sieve Script. 3.5 MichaelKloseSieveScript 3.6 Time-sensitiveNotification Example

Sieve Examples

Welcome to the Sieve Examples page of the Fastmail Wiki. In here you'll find a collection of links to various examples of Sieve code, hosted on this wiki. If you need more general help with Sieve, please take a look at the Sieve F.A.Q. A list of links, some of which providing examples, can be found there as part of the References section. Scripts that contain profanity (in order to detect it being used in mail messages) have been marked with a !.

Simple Examples

SanjaySieveSpamFilter

!An extract from SanjaySheth's personal sieve script used for filtering blatant spam.

SieveVacation

Snippet for adding vacation messages to your sieve script.

SieveRecipes

Highly recommended! Small snippets of code, for many small tasks.

Vivil

Simple script featuring various checks, and a redirect for archiving purposes.

Jerry's Sieve

Uses list of subject keywords and :regex to filter spam. It's posted in a forum discussion.

Advanced Examples

Filter Mailing Lists into Folders

"The following extract files messages from all the mailing lists I am on (and thats a lot) each into their own folder. I use Maildir format mailboxes, and the lists are all subfolders under the list folder under INBOX. The list names are sanitized (to prevent someone trying to write stuff into ../../something or similar — if they do not match a basic string then stuff is filed into .list.unknown (pretty much nothing hits that at present)."

See the Exim wiki (example in Exim and Sieve format).

MrElvey's Examples

See his Sieve Webpage.

For a mid-level overview of how MrElvey uses sieve to handle email, see SpamCountermeasures.

MoreSieveExamples

'Salient parts' of the Sieve script by an author whose name is unfortunately lost in the records.

MatthewJohnson's Example Sieve Script.

See MatthewJohnson for the script he uses on FastMail.fm. It features a way to manage multiple domains hosted at one account, using a catch-all alias for each. This way he can easily create new disposable addresses. It also uses spamfiltering spam by score, domain, by character encoding, whitelisting, whitelisting by fastmail addressbook, greylisting and blacklisting, to arange mail into folders, and to forward to sms.

MichaelKloseSieveScript

Michael Klose's Sieve script. (Note: This page used to contain discussion about this script; the discussion has been moved to Talk:MichaelKloseSieveScript; Note to people coming in from the Cyrusoft Website: This is the script you're looking for, it has been moved around to get some order in the chaos of this wiki)

Time-sensitiveNotification Example

An example of a rule that works only during specified time-periods.