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Subject:    [sylpheed:23513] Re: IMAP filtering, was: Re: Sylpheed 0.9.99
From:       Manfred Usselmann <usselmann.m () icg-online ! de>
Date:       2004-10-27 9:38:01
Message-ID: 417F6C79.8090805 () icg-online ! de
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Randy.Dunlap wrote:

> Valorie Zimmerman wrote:
> 
>> IMAP filtering must be done with procmail (or something like that) on 
>> the server side, right? I don't see how one would be able to do 
>> client-side IMAP filtering without messing up IMAP. I would be happy 
>> for my errors to be corrected.

The mail client can move messages between folders on the server, right? 
Manually moving and copying between folders on the server works fine 
with Sylphed, so there is no reason why it shouldn't work automatically 
via filter rules.

Filtering on the server has one big advantage though: You can switch 
between different mail clients (e.g. I use Sylpheed at home, Mozilla 
Mail at work and webmail at different places) and your mail is always 
filtered. And you don't have to wait when you start your mailclient 
until everything is sorted.
But if you always use the same mail client and don't receive hundreds of 
mails per day, filtering on the client side should be sufficient.

And may be the only way if you don't have a chance to konfigure 
filtering software on the server (e.g. no access, not enough 
permissions, not enough knowledge).

>> Valorie  <---- using IMAP with procmail filtering

I use maildrop for filtering on the server side.


> Thunderbird (from mozilla.org) successfully does IMAP filtering
> on the server.  

So this proofs that it is possible.

Manfred

> 
>> On Mon, 4 Oct 2004 08:12:55 -0700
>> "Randy.Dunlap" <rddunlap@osdl.org> wrote:
>>
>>
>>> On Fri, 1 Oct 2004 20:57:53 -0400 Allen Ziegenfus wrote:
>>>
>>> | On the fine day of Thu, 30 Sep 2004 20:18:18 +0900
>>> | Hiroyuki Yamamoto <hiro-y@kcn.ne.jp> said very eloquently:
>>> | | > Since the development of the new filtering has almost finished, 
>>> I'm
>>> | > going to release the next version about the next weekend.
>>> | | Will it be possible to filter automatically after downloading 
>>> mail from
>>> | IMAP servers?
>>> Maybe I'm misparsing this, but does one download mail from IMAP
>>> servers?
>>>
>>> I would be very happy & interested to see IMAP filtering -- on the
>>> IMAP server, into folders on the server.
>>>
>>> -- 



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