On Fri, Dec 07, 2007 at 08:17:51AM +0530, Pradnyesh Sawant wrote: > I know that imap is a better alternative for that; however, before I start > using imap, I have the following doubts: > 1. can I d'load the mails permanently so that they may be accessible > offline too?
Yes. > 2. I think I can do the above if I use mutt directly with imap instead of > going through fetchmail, but then how do I filter messages (how do I use > procmail in this setup) Good question. One way I would suggest is to dump the messages to an mbox and run formail on it to make it pass through procmail. > 3. even if I use mutt directly, will mutt sync back with gmail? Yes. > I know that one can use thunderbird/kmail to do this kind of stuff. my > query is how does one do this using fetchmail+procmail+mutt? I haven't done it myself, but I have seen people do this sort of thing. Sorry if I am not of much help, but I'd love to hear whether you find some way better than the way I suggested above to get this done. Thanks! Kumar -- Kumar Appaiah, 458, Jamuna Hostel, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai - 600 036 -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
