Re: ProcMail, WAS: Re: Fetchmail and Gmail

2009-09-01 Thread Paul Cartwright
On Tue August 25 2009, Chris Jones wrote: but looking at the procmailrc( now non-existant), then thinking about my 200 kmail filters, I'm not sure I could tackle that task.. As another poster hinted, this is another example of the hidden benefits of cloning the Microsoft model. I'm not

Re: ProcMail, WAS: Re: Fetchmail and Gmail

2009-09-01 Thread Paul Cartwright
On Tue August 25 2009, Micha wrote: what benefit would I get from procmail? 1. The ability to move from kmail to something else if you want without rewriting your rules. good idea.. I like that, especially when testing different email programs. 2. The ability to pull mail without having

Re: ProcMail, WAS: Re: Fetchmail and Gmail

2009-09-01 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2009-09-01 04:45, Paul Cartwright wrote: On Tue August 25 2009, Chris Jones wrote: but looking at the procmailrc( now non-existant), then thinking about my 200 kmail filters, I'm not sure I could tackle that task.. As another poster hinted, this is another example of the hidden benefits of

Re: ProcMail, WAS: Re: Fetchmail and Gmail

2009-09-01 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2009-09-01 04:51, Paul Cartwright wrote: [snip] right now, on my system I have icedove, evolution, kmail, and claws, all setup for my local user. procmail seems to move the mail into an mbox file, and I haven't figured out how to get any email program to read an mbox folder. But you see,

Re: ProcMail, WAS: Re: Fetchmail and Gmail

2009-09-01 Thread Paul Cartwright
On Tue September 1 2009, Ron Johnson wrote: If your person message store is an mbox file, then I'd: this is the part I can't figure out.. I don't have an mbox setup on kmail, I don't see a way for it to read an mbox folder.. I tried to create an mbox folder in an account, but I don't see any

Re: ProcMail, WAS: Re: Fetchmail and Gmail

2009-09-01 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2009-09-01 05:19, Paul Cartwright wrote: On Tue September 1 2009, Ron Johnson wrote: If your person message store is an mbox file, then I'd: this is the part I can't figure out.. I don't have an mbox setup on kmail, I don't see a way for it to read an mbox folder.. I tried to create an

Re: ProcMail, WAS: Re: Fetchmail and Gmail

2009-09-01 Thread Micha Feigin
On Tue, 1 Sep 2009 05:51:49 -0400 Paul Cartwright a...@pcartwright.com wrote: On Tue August 25 2009, Micha wrote: what benefit would I get from procmail? 1. The ability to move from kmail to something else if you want without rewriting your rules. good idea.. I like that, especially

Re: ProcMail, WAS: Re: Fetchmail and Gmail

2009-08-26 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 12:30:03AM -0400, Chris Jones wrote: On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 10:57:01PM EDT, Celejar wrote: On Tue, 25 Aug 2009 13:32:21 +0300 Micha mi...@post.tau.ac.il wrote: ... 3. Text file with regular expression based rules that you know where it resides and can back

Re: ProcMail, WAS: Re: Fetchmail and Gmail

2009-08-26 Thread Celejar
On Wed, 26 Aug 2009 00:30:03 -0400 Chris Jones cjns1...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 10:57:01PM EDT, Celejar wrote: On Tue, 25 Aug 2009 13:32:21 +0300 Micha mi...@post.tau.ac.il wrote: ... 3. Text file with regular expression based rules that you know where it resides

Re: ProcMail, WAS: Re: Fetchmail and Gmail

2009-08-25 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Mon,24.Aug.09, 20:56:27, Paul Cartwright wrote: but looking at the procmailrc( now non-existant), then thinking about my 200 kmail filters, I'm not sure I could tackle that task.. maildir (and procmail too as I hear, but I don't like its syntax) is *very* powerful. I recently did a major

Re: ProcMail, WAS: Re: Fetchmail and Gmail

2009-08-25 Thread Micha
On 8/24/2009 11:34 PM, Paul Cartwright wrote: On Mon August 24 2009, Micha wrote: Personally I use fetchmail + procmail to fetch and filter my mail I use fetchmail to pull in my mail for all my domain accounts. Kmail pulls it all in via my local user. From there I have many, MANY filters to

Re: ProcMail, WAS: Re: Fetchmail and Gmail

2009-08-25 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Ma,25.aug.09, 13:32:21, Micha wrote: On the downside, if you want to explicitly pull mail now, pulling mail from kmail doesn't pull the mail off your accounts, you need to do that explicitly from the command line Not very familiar with kmail, but claws-mail (sylpheed too?) has

Re: ProcMail, WAS: Re: Fetchmail and Gmail

2009-08-25 Thread Chris Jones
On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 08:56:27PM EDT, Paul Cartwright wrote: [..] but looking at the procmailrc( now non-existant), then thinking about my 200 kmail filters, I'm not sure I could tackle that task.. As another poster hinted, this is another example of the hidden benefits of cloning the

Re: ProcMail, WAS: Re: Fetchmail and Gmail

2009-08-25 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2009-08-25 13:55, Chris Jones wrote: On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 08:56:27PM EDT, Paul Cartwright wrote: [..] but looking at the procmailrc( now non-existant), then thinking about my 200 kmail filters, I'm not sure I could tackle that task.. As another poster hinted, this is another example

Re: ProcMail, WAS: Re: Fetchmail and Gmail

2009-08-25 Thread Chris Jones
On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 03:02:44PM EDT, Ron Johnson wrote: On 2009-08-25 13:55, Chris Jones wrote: On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 08:56:27PM EDT, Paul Cartwright wrote: [..] but looking at the procmailrc( now non-existant), then thinking about my 200 kmail filters, I'm not sure I could tackle that

Re: ProcMail, WAS: Re: Fetchmail and Gmail

2009-08-25 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2009-08-25 18:29, Chris Jones wrote: On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 03:02:44PM EDT, Ron Johnson wrote: On 2009-08-25 13:55, Chris Jones wrote: On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 08:56:27PM EDT, Paul Cartwright wrote: [..] but looking at the procmailrc( now non-existant), then thinking about my 200 kmail

Re: ProcMail, WAS: Re: Fetchmail and Gmail

2009-08-25 Thread Celejar
On Tue, 25 Aug 2009 13:32:21 +0300 Micha mi...@post.tau.ac.il wrote: On 8/24/2009 11:34 PM, Paul Cartwright wrote: On Mon August 24 2009, Micha wrote: Personally I use fetchmail + procmail to fetch and filter my mail I use fetchmail to pull in my mail for all my domain accounts. Kmail

Re: ProcMail, WAS: Re: Fetchmail and Gmail

2009-08-25 Thread Celejar
On Tue, 25 Aug 2009 13:44:57 +0300 Andrei Popescu andreimpope...@gmail.com wrote: On Ma,25.aug.09, 13:32:21, Micha wrote: On the downside, if you want to explicitly pull mail now, pulling mail from kmail doesn't pull the mail off your accounts, you need to do that explicitly from the

Re: ProcMail, WAS: Re: Fetchmail and Gmail

2009-08-25 Thread Chris Jones
On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 10:57:01PM EDT, Celejar wrote: On Tue, 25 Aug 2009 13:32:21 +0300 Micha mi...@post.tau.ac.il wrote: ... 3. Text file with regular expression based rules that you know where it resides and can back it up and human read it As the resident Sylpheed fanboy, I must

Re: ProcMail, WAS: Re: Fetchmail and Gmail

2009-08-25 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Tue, Aug 25 2009, Andrei Popescu wrote: On Mon,24.Aug.09, 20:56:27, Paul Cartwright wrote: but looking at the procmailrc( now non-existant), then thinking about my 200 kmail filters, I'm not sure I could tackle that task.. maildir (and procmail too as I hear, but I don't like its

Re: ProcMail, WAS: Re: Fetchmail and Gmail

2009-08-25 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2009-08-25 23:30, Chris Jones wrote: On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 10:57:01PM EDT, Celejar wrote: On Tue, 25 Aug 2009 13:32:21 +0300 Micha mi...@post.tau.ac.il wrote: ... 3. Text file with regular expression based rules that you know where it resides and can back it up and human read it

ProcMail, WAS: Re: Fetchmail and Gmail

2009-08-24 Thread Paul Cartwright
On Mon August 24 2009, Micha wrote: Personally I use fetchmail + procmail to fetch and filter my mail I use fetchmail to pull in my mail for all my domain accounts. Kmail pulls it all in via my local user. From there I have many, MANY filters to put mail in separate folders. what benefit would

RE: ProcMail, WAS: Re: Fetchmail and Gmail

2009-08-24 Thread Kevin Ross
From: Paul Cartwright [mailto:a...@pcartwright.com] Sent: Monday, August 24, 2009 1:35 PM On Mon August 24 2009, Micha wrote: Personally I use fetchmail + procmail to fetch and filter my mail I use fetchmail to pull in my mail for all my domain accounts. Kmail pulls it all in via my

Re: ProcMail, WAS: Re: Fetchmail and Gmail

2009-08-24 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2009-08-24 17:11, Kevin Ross wrote: From: Paul Cartwright [mailto:a...@pcartwright.com] Sent: Monday, August 24, 2009 1:35 PM On Mon August 24 2009, Micha wrote: Personally I use fetchmail + procmail to fetch and filter my mail I use fetchmail to pull in my mail for all my domain accounts.

Re: ProcMail, WAS: Re: Fetchmail and Gmail

2009-08-24 Thread Paul Cartwright
On Mon August 24 2009, Ron Johnson wrote: But if Paul is asking the benefit of procmail over competing MDAs like maildrop, then the benefit is cryptic line noise a la Perl. what I'm asking is.. will it benefit me to change the way I do email and add another program into the mix. right now I do

RE: ProcMail, WAS: Re: Fetchmail and Gmail

2009-08-24 Thread Kevin Ross
From: Paul Cartwright [mailto:a...@pcartwright.com] Sent: Monday, August 24, 2009 5:56 PM On Mon August 24 2009, Ron Johnson wrote: But if Paul is asking the benefit of procmail over competing MDAs like maildrop, then the benefit is cryptic line noise a la Perl. what I'm asking is..

Re: ProcMail, WAS: Re: Fetchmail and Gmail

2009-08-24 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2009-08-24 19:56, Paul Cartwright wrote: On Mon August 24 2009, Ron Johnson wrote: But if Paul is asking the benefit of procmail over competing MDAs like maildrop, then the benefit is cryptic line noise a la Perl. what I'm asking is.. will it benefit me to change the way I do email and add