Amos, Are you into programing?
If so, IMAP::Client for perl works pretty well (though there are occasional bugs :) ). I can give you a perl script I use for handling incoming requests from users (via email) and places them into a database. You can probably modify it to do whatever you want. On Friday 13 February 2009 05:08:53 Amos Shapira wrote: > Hello, > > I'm looking at a way to filter e-mails on our Exchange 2003 server > using a linux box as an IMAP client. > > I have it now working on my Ubuntu desktop using Claws mail but it > means I have to keep it running while I'm away which is wasteful (I > shut down my desktop overnight and weekends). > > Looking around for solutions I learned: > 1. My memory about procmail not being suitable is still correct - > Procmail can only store to local files. > 2. The closest I found was > http://markmail.org/message/esxmz6bsejt6bt6y, which mentions Sickle > http://www.codebunny.org/coding/sickle/ which is almost 4 years old > and depends on perl modules I can't find in CPAN. > > But Sickle's idea (using Perl IMAP modules to filter messages) seems > to be right. > > What I envision is to run a script on one of our main operations > servers which are always on, which reads message headers over IMAP > from the Exchange server, filters them and moves them to other IMAP > folders. Just like Claws does for me already but without the need for > a GUI/display etc. > > Is there something more "baked" or should I work from scratch? > > Thanks, > > --Amos > > _______________________________________________ > Linux-il mailing list > [email protected] > http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il -- Noam Rathaus CTO [email protected] http://www.beyondsecurity.com "Know that you are safe." _______________________________________________ Linux-il mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
