imap mail handling

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.

Craig