On Thu, 6 Jun 2024, Bret Busby via Alpine-info wrote:
To perform an operation at an email hosting facility, I believe that you need
to use a webmail facility, for example, if fastmail uses horde or squirrel or
something (although, I primarily use Tbird as a webmail application, which
lets me work between email hosting folders, and, Tbird local folders. So, I
use Tbird to filter out some junkmail, saving it to a junk folder, at my
email hosting, so avoiding downloading it, when I use alpine to download my
email to my local computer.
The thing with such filtering, if you want to use your email provider's junk
storage, is that you need to use (run) whatever webmail application - whether
it is one on your local computer, or, one provided by your email provider,
each time that you want the filtering performed, as the filters are stored in
the particular application.
If you want alpine to filter junk into a junk folder, then, you create the
junk folder, on your local computer, using alpine, when you create the
filter, and, save the messages to that, using alpine.
I have somewhere around 10-20 junk folders, that I run multiple filters to
filter into those folders, and, IO run multiple filters to extract some
messages from the junk folders.
Thats prob what I need to do is set my email up like yours since I can't
get ALPINE to work with POP3. Set up Thunderbird or the like with a
Fastmail IMAP password and then have TB pull the emails off of the server
to TB local folders.
Or use something like EVOLUTION where I can right click on a folder and
set a retention rule:
If emails in "archive2024" are older than 90 days... Then copy to LOCAL
FOLDERS"
If "sent-mail" emails are older than 90 days....Then copy to LOCAL
FOLDERS"
Chris
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