imap mail handling

[Kurt Granroth]

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.
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