> From: Paul Cartwright [mailto:a...@pcartwright.com] > Sent: Monday, August 24, 2009 5:56 PM > > On Mon August 24 2009, Ron Johnson wrote: > > But if Paul is asking the benefit of procmail over competing MDAs > > like maildrop, then the benefit is cryptic line noise a la Perl. > > what I'm asking is.. will it benefit me to change the way I > do email and add > another program into the mix. > right now I do fetchmail to /var/mail/myuser > kmail picks up the mail, does all the filtering... > when I fire up icedove, it is a totally separate set of > folders & emails ( > dating back 2 years:) > > I'm not sure I understand how I can use procmail to put mail > into filtered > folders that any mail program can read. > It would be nice to be able to switch programs & still have > all my mail in the > same folders.. > but looking at the procmailrc( now non-existant), then > thinking about my 200 > kmail filters, I'm not sure I could tackle that task..
Personally I use Maildirs. Mail is delivered to a Maildir folder under each user's home directory. Folders in your mail client are also folders in the Maildir. Many mail clients can read Maildirs (Evolution being one. Possibly Icedove, not sure though.) Procmail understands Maildirs. You just tell it the folder name you want a message copied to in your rules. You can also use an IMAP server, as I do. IMAP allows folders, unlike POP3. And most IMAP servers understand Maildirs. Then just point any mail client to the IMAP server (which can be localhost), and your mail client will display the folder hierarchy. Webmail servers will connect to an IMAP server running on the localhost, so then you will be able to access your email from any web browser anywhere, assuming your computer is reachable from the Internet, and still see all your folders. Also, personally I use a different mail filtering program, not procmail, but the basic functionality is the same. -- Kevin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
