Chris --
...and then [EMAIL PROTECTED] said...
% On Mon, Jun 05, 2000 at 12:40:24AM -0400, David T-G wrote:
% >
% > I'm sure we can help you. mutt is very likable :-) I'm no IMAP guy, and
% > the best folks are probably the IMAP code writers and maybe Chris Green,
% > our resident IMAP-tester and -abuser, but here's what I have for you.
% >
% Oh thank you! :-)
Hey, any time, pal! BTW, new email address?
% >
% > [The *right* answer, BTW, is to have the MDA do it at delivery time
% > instead of trying to have mutt do it -- but lots of people seem to want
% > to ignore that little point :-]
% >
% 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
It may not be practical, but it's still right. Note, however, that I
included that in parentheses rather than starting right off with it; I
feel your pain (well, I don't use IMAP, so I guess I imagine your pain,
but you get the idea) and understand that a handy tool for IMAP filtering
needs to be developed.
Not only do stubborn users but, apparently, code monkeys want to "ignore
that little point", for that tool isn't yet out there. But that's
neither here nor there.
If our new friend can't get his filtering done any other way, *then* we
can look at having mutt do the sorting and saving, but that's not really
what mutt was designed to do and so the best possible implementation will
still walk, talk, and sound a lot like a kludge. Better to wait and see
what comes out of round one.
% isn't an MDA involved.
Er, I beg to differ :-) Once the mail is transported to your machine,
it has to be delivered to a mailbox. Maybe you have an MTA that does
MDA functions, but it's still acting as an MDA, and if it weren't you'd
never actually get any of all of this mail that made it to your box :-)
%
% *Some* IMAP servers provide filtering, Interchange IMAP4 Server does
% for example.
Good to know, especially for my FAQ entry. Still working on that one...
%
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