Re: Procmail and sorting mail with imap folders

[Kyle Wheeler <kyle-mutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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On Monday, December 10 at 09:15 PM, quoth Jamie Griffin:
> Thanks Kyle
>
> i will look at procmail and see what i can so. Any ideas on where i 
> could find some more infor about using procmail with imap folders? 
> The stuff i've looked at seems mostly tailored for managing mail 
> locally. 

It IS for managing mail locally; like I said, it's a *server-side* 
filter. In other words, it's something you do *on the server*, and 
from that vantage point, it is managing mail locally (i.e. local to 
where procmail is running). It's not universally applicable, because 
using procmail or maildrop usually requires the ability to edit files 
in your home directory on the server (which often means you need a 
shell account on the server). That's actually one of the big reasons 
behind the design of SIEVE, which is that it is a server-side filter 
that can be configured via the IMAP protocol and does not require some 
other form of access to the delivery mechanisms (like procmail and 
maildrop do).

If you don't have any of the prerequisites of those (i.e. you don't 
have shell access or some other method of controlling your delivery, 
and your IMAP server doesn't support SIEVE), then your best bet is to 
use something like imap_tools 
(http://sourceforge.net/projects/imaptools/) or Sickle 
(http://www.codebunny.org/coding/sickle/). I've never used them, but 
they look like the last port of call before giving up.

~Kyle
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