Re: [Nolug] IMAP for home use

On Wed, 2002-05-08 at 17:58, Peter Kahle wrote:
> Actually, I'm pretty sure you don't have to worry about IMAP. Just have
> procmail plop it in the appropriate file in the appropriate folder, and
> IMAP will just pick it up. So, in my case, I have procmail store stuff
> in the ~/mail/ directory. NOLUG goes in ~/mail/NOLUG, my "default"
> mailbox is ~/mail/Unfiltered, that sort of thing. Then, when your IMAP
> server opens it up, it'll figure out what's new and what isn't, and
> display it to you. As a bonus, you can still read it all in mutt when
> you're ssh'd in from remote (Like I am now)
> Hope that helps,

Hmmm. Yes, I think does. What IMAP are you using? Washington?
Cyrus, which I am (currently) using, puts email messages in
/var/spool/cyrus/mail/..., with each email in individual files,
a la mh. Plus, there are cyrus-specific files in each sub-
directory.

> On Wed, May 08, 2002 at 05:17:35PM -0500, Ron wrote:
> > On Wed, 2002-05-08 at 15:20, Peter Kahle wrote:
> > > On Wed, May 08, 2002 at 03:03:51PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
> > >
> > > > Also, what daemon will periodically move mail from my
> > > > ISP's pop3 server to my local IMAP spool files? At the moment,
> > > > my Evolution filters will move mail from the pop server to
> > > > IMAP folders, but that dependance on the client, of course,
> > > > isn't the point of IMAP.
> > > >
> > > > Would it be fetchmail?
> > >
> > > Yup. Combined with procmail or similar, you can have stuff put in the
> > > appropriate folder for you.
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> > The fetchmail man page says "As each message is retrieved
> > fetchmail normally delivers it via SMTP to port 25 on the machine
> > it is running on (localhost)"
> >
> > Then, down further, it says "You can force mail to be passed to
> > an MDA directly (rather than forwarded to port 25) with the -mda
> > or -m option. To avoid losing mail, use this option only with
> > MDAs like procmail...".
> >
> > However, searching the procmail man page for IMAP turns up nothing.
> > Can you point the way to a Fscking Manual?
> >
> > Many thanks.
> >
> > (This sounds like it would be a good meeting topic...)

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