On Fri, Apr 20, 2001 at 11:24:29AM -0700, Dave Carrigan wrote: > On 20 Apr 2001 09:59:21 -0700, Bruce Z. Lysik wrote: > > --On Friday, April 20, 2001 8:43 AM -0700 Michael O'Brien > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > I'm looking for a mail filtering program that runs on an imap server. I > > > read e-mail thru imap. I use mutt on Linux and Irix, and Outlook on Win2k. > > > > > > Essentially, I want to setup mail filters to route messages into other > > > imap folders based on some set of criteria. > > > > > > Does anyone know of a good program to do this type of filtering? > > > > Procmail. I use it both at home, and work. Good stuff. > > > Except it won't work with all IMAP servers; only those imap servers that > serve files that are writable by the user (i.e., UW imapd). The original > poster doesn't say what kind of imap server it is. Newer versions of > cyrus use the sieve language to do message filtering. That is what I > use, and it works well. If your imap server is UW, use procmail. I don't > know about other imap servers. > If you're using courier imap then your best bet is maildrop as it copes with the mail-box-directories that courier uses (same as qmail).
Matthew -- Matthew Sackman Nottingham, ENGLAND Using Debian/GNU Linux Enjoying computing