[TriLUG] sorting imap mail - Procmail

[Jon Carnes]

Yes.  If your server is setup to the most prevailing standard, then procmail
is run as a preprocessor for your mail.  That means, that the server hands
your local mail to procmail, and lets procmail decide what to do with it.
Normally procmail just slams the mail into your local spool, but first it
looks for a local .procmailrc file.

If the file .procmailrc exists in your home directory, then procmail pretty
much does whatever that file tells it to do.  The commands used in
.procmailrc files are "arcane", so most folks look up a "recipe" they like
and just use that.  You can learn more about procmail commands by looking at
the examples in the man pages:  man procmailex

There are even some websites that publish wonderful procmail "recipes" that
you can simply cut and paste into your own .procmailrc file (with a minimal
of editing).

http://dmoz.org/Computers/Software/Internet/Clients/Mail/Unix/Procmail/
http://www.ling.helsinki.fi/users/reriksso/procmail/mini-faq.html

Here is a simple procmailrc generator that turns plain english (well... not
quite plain, but close) into a .procmailrc:
http://www.naskita.com/linux/tk-red/tk-red.shtml

Jon
----- Original Message -----
From: "Elliot Badham Peele" <ebpeele2 at unity.ncsu.edu>
To: "Jon Carnes" <jonc at nc.rr.com>
Sent: Wednesday, November 14, 2001 2:13 AM
Subject: Re: [TriLUG] sorting imap mail


> i sprocmail able to sort mail that is on a imap server that i want to stay
> on the imap server? i am running low on disk quota for my home directory.
>
> elliot
>
> On Tue, 13 Nov 2001, Jon Carnes wrote:
>
> > Procmail.
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "elliot peele" <elliot at trilug.org>
> > To: <trilug at trilug.org>
> > Sent: Tuesday, November 13, 2001 11:50 AM
> > Subject: [TriLUG] sorting imap mail
> >
> >
> > > is there a utility that will sort imap mail into separate folders that
> > > anyone would recomend?
> > >
> > > elliot
> > >
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