2000-01-13-07:18:21 Matthew Hawkins:
> There seems to be a lot of detractors to the requested
> functionality, however there's at least one valid case that mutt
> can be in where the functionality is quite useful. This is when
> the spoolfile is an IMAP INBOX folder. That folder could get mail
> from a variety of places, and it makes sense for mutt to be able
> to filter that mail into subfolders (hell, Netscape mail among
> others can do it).
>
> Try running procmail on a mail server you don't have an account on
> and your mailbox isn't actually physically owned by you anyway :)
I have email from a _lot_ of places coming in to my mail server.
Then I have fetchmail pull it down from there. I like my email to
show up quick, and it's a fast and lightly-loaded mail server, so I
use
set daemon 5
set logfile /home/bet/.fetchmail-log
set postmaster bet
set no bouncemail
poll localhost
protocol imap
port 2000
Those last three are because I run a port-forwarding ssh to the mail
server, and by using a high-numbered port I don't have to run the
client as root. Fetchmail shoves the traffic into my local Postfix,
which shoves it into procmail on my behalf, which files it in a
bunch of folders for various mailing lists, for stuff it recognizes
as spam, etc. Mutt watches all those folders.
-Bennett
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