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.
That sounds exactly like what I want to do. I guess I get confused because I often see procmail and exim mentioned in the same context...leading me to believe they do the same thing.
So, all I need to add is procmail. Currently, I guess exim sends the mail to my Maildir...and now I need to tell it to send to procmail instead. I'll read up on procmail and see how it might fit in.
Matt
On Wed, October 13, 2004 1:26 pm, [email protected] said:
That sounds exactly like what I want to do. I guess I get confused because I often see procmail and exim mentioned in the same context...leading me to believe they do the same thing.
So, all I need to add is procmail. Currently, I guess exim sends the mail to my Maildir...and now I need to tell it to send to procmail instead. I'll read up on procmail and see how it might fit in.
If you're using Debian, you can 'apt-get install procmail' then create yourself a ~/.procmailrc file. exim in woody and in sarge is setup to check for procmail _before_ delivering to maildir, unless you set it up differently. Basically, if the procmail transport is listed before the maildir transport, you're okay.
Now what should go in your .procmailrc? I used to list all of my mailing lists by hand, then I found this script:
http://www.dotfiles.com/files/12/215_.procmailrc
This procmailrc will attempt to dynamically check for certain headers in the email and then deliver them into that folder. It works great 99% of the time. The only problem is that one mailing list uses the email address of "talk@...." so that mailing list gets put under the 'talk' folder. KCLUG, however gets put under the 'kclug' folder.
The drawback is that if SpamAssassin (or your spam solution) doesn't catch an email and the spam email has a header that _looks like_ it's from a mailing list, then it creates a new folder to put the mail in. I have a couple of folders that were created in this way.
But like I said, 99% good.
Jeremy
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