On Friday, 14 January 2000 at 18:07, Mikko Hänninen wrote:
> Bennett Todd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on Fri, 14 Jan 2000:
> > (2) You only access the email via POP or IMAP; and
> > (3) You don't want to download the email and keep it on the
> > client with e.g. fetchmail feeding procmail (perhaps via
> > local MTA);
> >
> > then you have specified goals that can only be achieved via some
> > really revolting solution involving downloading the mail and
> > filtering it and then re-uploading it.
>
> I may be wrong, but I remember reading somewhere that IMAP supports
> moving messages from one folder to another on the server, without
> downloading? And since you can (presumably) also just retrieve
sure does. In fact, mutt already uses this command for saving and
copying messages.
> headers from messages, it should be possible to write a remote IMAP
> filtering tool. Now, doing the same with POP, that's probably
yes. That may be a good place to use the IMAP SEARCH command too...
> impossible.
definitely impossible. POP doesn't support multiple mailboxes, AFAIK.
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