On Feb 21, 2012 7:03 AM, "Grant Edwards" <grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On 2012-02-20, Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I'm looking to set up something that reads messages from one IMAP > > server/mailbox, filters out the spam, and then writes the filtered > > messages into another IMAP server/mailbox. The source and destination > > servers may or may not be the same, and neither is the machine where > > the filter is running. I'd like the solution to use the IMAP IDLE > > command to avoid the latency and load of constantly setting up SSL > > connections and polling the source server. > > > > It looks like fetchmail -> procmail+spamassassin -> dovecot/deliver > > ought to do what I want. > > Or not. It looks dovecot can't deliver to a mailbox on an IMAP server > after all. > > > Is there something simpler and easier that I've overlooked? >
Seems to me "getmail" is more suitable for your needs: http://pyropus.ca/software/getmail/documentation.html#features the feature list says that it can run a filtering software, and delivers emails directly into maildirs. Not sure about IDLE support though. Rgds,
