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Re: IMAP, Gmail and...Procmail?



Hello Michael,

Am 2008-07-15 11:30:08, schrieb Michael Pobega:
> 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?

It is possibel but, you should not do any filtering on gmail.

1)  Download the messages from your INBOX with "fetchmail"
2)  Filter it local with procmail
3)  Use a tool to sync the local mailfolders with gmail.
    (uploading new local messages to gmail and then delete it local)

Thanks, Greetings and nice Day/Evening
    Michelle Konzack
    Systemadministrator
    24V Electronic Engineer
    Tamay Dogan Network
    Debian GNU/Linux Consultant


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