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From: "Davide Libenzi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "XMail mailing list" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, January 16, 2002 12:19 PM
Subject: [xmail] Re: multiple sites to access mail
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> XMail will have IMAP somewhere this year but UW-IMAP is worth a try.
>
I want to report about some success in setting up XMail to UW-IMAP
cooperation. The XMail server runs on home linux machine with ADSL
connection to the Internet and carry mail for me, family and friends. I get
about 1000 messages a day from some mailing lists. Becaule I use mail at
home and at work, I need IMAP service to sinchronize message data base on
diffirent client machines.
So I have installed UW-IMAP on the same linux machine. Wrote "Domain
message filter" for processing all mail coming to me. The shell script
called to filter mail analizes sender ("@@FROM" field) of the message and if
it belongs to one of mailing-list senders, it pass the message to procmail
to deliver it to UW-IMAP local user and returns 97.
All other messages returns 0 to continue XMail regular processing.
So the messages are analized twice: one time in this filter script to
filter out mail-list messages from all other mail, and second time while
procmail.rc processing to deliver messages to separate mailboxes.
One more problem is that some mail-list senders have "@@FROM" field
counting the number of the message, for example,
@@FROM =
'[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
contains the sender and the recipient addresses and this message number.
So I think to avoid process duplication it is worth while passing all
mail to one server.
WBR,
Sergey Ivanov.
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