On Fri, 25 Jan 2002, Sergey Ivanov wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Davide Libenzi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: "XMail mailing list" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Wednesday, January 16, 2002 12:19 PM
> Subject: [xmail] Re: multiple sites to access mail
> [skip]
> >
> > XMail will have IMAP somewhere this year but UW-IMAP is worth a try.
> >
> I want to report about some success in setting up XMail to UW-IMAP
> cooperation. The XMail server runs on home linux machine with ADSL
> connection to the Internet and carry mail for me, family and friends. I get
> about 1000 messages a day from some mailing lists. Becaule I use mail at
> home and at work, I need IMAP service to sinchronize message data base on
> diffirent client machines.
> So I have installed UW-IMAP on the same linux machine. Wrote "Domain
> message filter" for processing all mail coming to me. The shell script
> called to filter mail analizes sender ("@@FROM" field) of the message and if
> it belongs to one of mailing-list senders, it pass the message to procmail
> to deliver it to UW-IMAP local user and returns 97.
> All other messages returns 0 to continue XMail regular processing.
> So the messages are analized twice: one time in this filter script to
> filter out mail-list messages from all other mail, and second time while
> procmail.rc processing to deliver messages to separate mailboxes.
> One more problem is that some mail-list senders have "@@FROM" field
> counting the number of the message, for example,
>
> @@FROM =
> '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
>
> contains the sender and the recipient addresses and this message number.
> So I think to avoid process duplication it is worth while passing all
> mail to one server.
Good job, thanks. Isn't there a way to have UW-IMAP to pick messages
inside XMail's Maildir's ?
- Davide
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