On Wed, Jan 23, 2008 at 07:50:10AM -0500, Dan H wrote: > When I start mutt, it shows me the stuff in the local spool. As soon > as I do some folder-oriented stuff it dives into the IMAP server, but > how can I now access my local hierarchy under ~/Mail? > > In principle I'd like to keep all locally (POP3) receiced mail in the > ~/Mail hierarchy and the other stuff on the IMAP server. When I moved my work email from our horrible MS Exchange implementation to use mutt, I made a few concessions with regard to this. Things become substantially easier if you just download all the mail to your spool. This works for me because I read my mail on a box that I have remote ssh access to. I could even setup IMAP to read from my local spool there if I needed to use IMAP elsewhere for some reason. There's a number of benefits to fetching from the IMAP server: 1) Unified filtering: all my mail filters are implemented in one procmail recipie file, filtered at delivery time. I never have to wait on imapfilter (or similar) to filter remote mailboxes. 2) SpamAssassin: SA works so much better than our server's integrated spam filter, especially when I can train my own Bayesian database and tune rule scores for my mail. 3) No switching between remote and local mail: mutt reads everything out of my local spool. Easier to navigate with mutt, and faster anyway. 4) Address book usage becomes searching LDAP: this is a benefit for us because Microsoft's global catalog performs substantially worse via Outlook than LDAP. I have no clue why. "mutt-ldap.pl" by Andreas Plesner Jacobsen makes it very easy to query LDAP for addresses. It's simple to understand and easy to customize with just a little bit of perl. Ross
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