Thanks all - that's a few really useful suggestions; I will try procmail & "q-sorter" (which I absolutely had not heard of before but looks very interesting) - and reply again with my success (if any :) )
Regards, David. > -----Original Message----- > From: Aleksander Olsen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Saturday, 24 September 2005 5:10 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [toaster] Sorting mail > > > http://q-sorter.sourceforge.net > > On 9/23/05, Bill Shupp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > David wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > > > > The Shupp toaster is an extremely neat package, and I have > been using it for > > > over 12 months now on several boxes. > > > > > > I have found IMAP to be extremely useful to handle a large > amount of e-mail, > > > including archived messages, accross several MUA's including webmail > > > (squirrelmail). > > > > > > But one feature I'm desperately lacking is the ability to > sort mail into > > > IMAP folders based on simple rules (eg. sender or subject). I > don't need > > > complex filtering, which various packages provide (eg. > procmail) but I *do* > > > need the ability to move mail into different folders based on filter > > > settings. > > > > > > Knowing that I will have to integrate this with qmail & > courier as well, I > > > thought I'd ask here first. Does anyone has anything going > like this? Does > > > anyone have any suggestions for what I should try? > > > > > > I have looked at procmail, sieve, and maildrop, but I haven't > figured out > > > any way of getting those programs to actually *move* my mail > into different > > > folders; they seem to be "accept or reject" only... > > > > maildrop is what you want. www.courier-mta.org. > > > > Regards, > > > > Bill > > > > !DSPAM:43347fe842961256812480! > >
