On Mon, 24 Jun 2002, at 4:19pm, Derek D. Martin wrote:
>>   Basically, imagine a person who:
>> 
>>   - Wants or has to keep his mail on an IMAP mail server
>>   - Cannot run procmail on the server
>>   - Wants the filtering capabilities of procmail
> 
> Isn't this what Netscape and Outbreak do when you enable filters?

  MS Outlook does not support filtering IMAP mail at all.  As far as
Netscape goes, I believe you are correct, but I am sure it is not as
powerful as procmail is.  :)

>>   Paul likes exmh, and MH clients and IMAP do not mix
> 
> This isn't exactly true; Paul is just stubborn. It is true that exmh can't
> access IMAP folders directly.  The solution to this problem is use
> fetchmail to retrieve the IMAP messages, and use exmh to read them
> locally.

  Which completely defeats the point of IMAP.  I really wouldn't call that
using MH and IMAP together.

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Ben Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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