Hi,
I've been wondering about this for a long time..
If one uses POP3 to download mail, then filtering can be done with procmail,
and everyone's happy. However I'd like to use IMAP, since I access mail from
various computers.
So the question is, how can one do IMAP-based email filtering? How do most
people do it? Procmail scripts on the server? Courier-specific IMAP filtering
languages[1]?
Assuming there is no universal solution, could mutt be made to emulate one,
like netscape mail does? Ie:
- download all the headers
- filter based on the header info
- Issue IMAP "copy" instructions to move the actual messages to the right
mailboxes.
Has anyone done this with mutt before?
Perhaps it should be a separate utility, invoked before mutt, that applies a
local set of procmail rules to a remote set of IMAP mailboxes. Does anyone know
of anything like this?
Thanks,
--Jeff
[1] http://search.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-showalter-sieve-12.txt
