imap mail handling

[Craig White]

Quoting "der.hans" <PLUGd@lufthans.com>:

> Am 04. Jun, 2001 schwäzte Craig White so:
> 
> > 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.
> 
> man procmailrc
> man procmailex
> 
> The second one is just so obvious to find, right? :)
> 
> Actually, if you look at the bottom of man pages, you'll often find a
> "SEE
> ALSO" section, which is how I stumbled upon procmailex.
> 
> Using exim on debian automagically turns on procmail. Creating a
> .procmailrc
> sorts my mail. Currently I only use IMAP for my INBOX. Need to change
> someday, but it's been working well for years :).
> 
> You should be able to use procmail on the IMAP server, though.
> 
> Here's an example for PLUG-discuss:
> 
> # plug-discuss
> :0:
> * for <(PLUGd@LuftHans.com|PLUG-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us)>
> linux/plugd
> 
> I don't rely on To headers as they often don't have correct info. This
> won't
> work if it all goes to one email alias or one mailbox that is snapped up
> via
> fetchmail. I get local delivery to a domain I control, though, so it
> works.
> 
> I sort out mail for the email alias I use for PLUG-discuss as well as
> mail
> for PLUG-discuss itself.
> 
> The 'linux' dir in my mail dir has to exist before this rule will
> work.
> 
------------
again - my thanks to you Hans

bye Outlook - next week - LDAP

;-)

Craig


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