On Monday, June 4, 2001, at 03:20 PM, Kurt Granroth wrote: > Craig White wrote: >> I have been playing with imap and can see it's advantages for me to use >> various computers - sort of a roaming profile but if I give up the use >> of a mail client, I lose the ability to use the client application to >> use rule sets to sort thru the mail and redirect it. >> >> Is there something that can do this for me when it is received - >> procmail? >> >> the concept I am looking for is to log in via imap and have all the >> mail >> pre-sorted into folders in my /~ folder. > > Right, just use procmail as long as you have control of the IMAP > server and it's on the same system as your home directory. By > default, most IMAP servers will serve all mailboxes in your ~/Mail > directory. > -- Care to throw a bone to this starving dog who is eager to leave Outlook? What would a procmail script look that does this look like? I did a man on procmail and it didn't give me any clues but I got the idea that I need to put a procmailrc file (which I presume is a shell script) that does something. hints but doesn't get there.. Craig ps - if this is html mail, I'm sorry but this is the OSX "Mail" and everything looks like HTML. I'll figure it out soon.