[EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on Mon, 05 Jun 2000:
> It may be the 'right' answer but unless you have control of the IMAP
> server it's not very practical is it! When using IMAP there really
> isn't an MDA involved.
This has been discussed before. :-)
Just because the mail folders reside on a remote server still doesn't
mean Mutt should provide message filtering. The "Right Way" would be
to have a specific IMAP-filtering-tool that connects to the IMAP server
and filters messages in a folder according to some rules. This is
(supposedly) entirely doable since IMAP allows for downloading of
headers or even just specific headears (?), and also allows for message
saving/moving to another folder on server-side.
It's just that nobody's done this yet. Looking for writing a killer
application that would eventually be highly utilized, comparable to
procmail? Here's your chance to write one.
And oh, a MDA is *always* involved, MTA's don't do delivery. :-)
Regards,
Mikko
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