On Wed, October 13, 2004 12:52 pm, [email protected] said:
What are you filtering/sorting your mail with now? You may need to filter on the "to" address, or go a little deeper into the headers to select the pop info. What fetchmail does is hand mail off to the local delivery agent (LDA), which usually handles filtering and sorting.
Right now I'm not filtering at all. All the mail just goes into my main inbox. So...am I currently using an LDA? Maybe that's what Courier-IMAP does?
Courier-IMAP provides the IMAP support for Mozilla Thunderbird and in my case the backend for a webmail client like squirrelmail.
Filtering for your local user accounts can come from exim/postfix/sendmail or through procmail. In my setup, mail is received through exim, then handed off to procmail, which sorts and delivers my mail to ~/Maildir where my mail lives peacefully.
The IMAP server accesses the mail from that location and allows me to read, delete, etc it.
Jeremy