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Re: IMAP, Gmail and...Procmail?



On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 12:02:43PM -0400, Patrick Shanahan wrote:
> * Michael Pobega <pobega@xxxxxxxxx> [07-15-08 11:32]:
> > I have finally set up Mutt to work with IMAP (After just finding out
> > Gmail has IMAP this morning), but I'm wondering if there is a suitable
> > way to sort my emails using Procmail. I used to use POP and Procmail
> > together to sort all my mail, but with IMAP that doesn't seem possible
> > since I'm not actually downloading the mail...
> > 
> > Can anyone tell me a suitable way to sort my mail or use Procmail with
> > IMAP?
> 
> You can still download your mail and sort *locally* with procmail.
> You just set the fetchmail protocol to imap instead of pop.  The
> keyword here is "local".
> 
> I don't know why your want imap.  If you want to view sorted mail on
> the gmail server, use the web interface and gmail "labels".
> 

Woah, disregard this e-mail. I didn't mean to send it...I don't know why
it was sent automatically. Sorry for the double topic.
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