I know this can be done: IMAP, Procmail, SquirrelMail

[Anthony Hologounis]

That seems to be the main benefit of IMAP. A centralized location for your 
email that can be accessed from any machine. I think its neat. I have used 
pine but not consistently. To check email remotely from the commandline its 
quick and clean. But I prefer a GUI for day to day useage.

A client that works properly with respect to keeping NEW mail as NEW is what 
I'm looking for...I have over 25 mail folders that I use to sort mail via 
Procmail....I just want to be able to glance at the folder list and see how 
many new mails are waiting for me in eahc folder. So far with kmail and 
squirrelmail I dont get that visual gratification...I have to open each 
folder to see if there is anything new inside. That bites.

Anthony

On Tuesday 12 February 2002 01:42 pm, you wrote:
> I use the IMP for my web-based email. http://www.horde.org
> It does take a little configuring to get it set up- but once it is it's
> nearly admin free. I just started using pine to grab imap mail from my
> server/firewall/gateway box. This helps a little when I have to use
> different Win machines and don't want to copy all of my email into
> multiple mailboxes.
>
> On Tue, 12 Feb 2002, Anthony Hologounis wrote:
> > Sorry... I think it may be an email client issue. I am using kmail 1.3.2
> > as my everyday email client. I created a test account and tried using the
> > email client in Mozilla 9.8. The mozilla email client seems to have
> > better support for IMAP and it does show mail that has been processed by
> > Procmail as NEW. The only caveat is that you have to click the folder so
> > it can refresh but the NEW mail IS shown.
> >
> > Is anyone else using IMAP and if so what client are you using?
> >
> > Anthony Hologounis
> >
> > On Tuesday 12 February 2002 11:27 am, you wrote:
> > > Hello
> > >
> > > I just know this can be done.
> > >
> > > I have a RH7.2 box that is running postfix and I use Qpopper to pop the
> > > mail to the clients.
> > >
> > > I just installed SquirrelMail which is a web based email client but
> > > discovered it needed IMAP to work .
> > > I am new to IMAP and at first glance it seems to be more difficult then
> > > POP to set up , but I digress.
> > >
> > > I am using UW IMAP and I recompiled it to point to $HOME/Mail
> > > SquirrelMail is able to create folders in $HOME/Mail and all is good
> > > As a side note , with respect to IMAP the INBOX is
> > > /var/spool/mail/$USER INBOX.trash, INBOX.Sent etc exist in $HOME/Mail.
> > > I am assuming that this is as it should be....
> > >
> > > Heres the problem.
> > > I want to use Procmail to filter the mail for the user and I am able to
> > > get procmail to work BUT when I run SquirrelMail and check the mail the
> > > only mail that will show up as NEW is any mail not filtered by
> > > Procmail, ie: any mail that ends up in /var/spool/mail/$USER will be
> > > seen as NEW.
> > >
> > > If the mail IS filtered by Procmail it will be put into the respective
> > > file in $HOME/Mail/"somefile"
> > >
> > > SquirrelMail will see "somefile" but any mail inside that "folder" is
> > > not shown as NEW . So I have to open the "somefile" folder in
> > > SquirrelMail to see whats in it. There is no initial gratification of
> > > knowing how many new pieces of mail await me. Does that make sense?
> > >
> > > At first thought, is there a way for Procmail to flag the message as
> > > NEW after it has been processed?
> > >
> > > Thanks for the help
> > >
> > > Anthony Hologounis
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