On Wednesday, 14 February 2001 at 09:56, Jack McKinney wrote:
> Big Brother tells me that Justin R. Miller wrote:
> > Regarding what Waldemar said before about fetchmail and procmail,
> > you don't necessarily have to lose the features of IMAP. I have
> > been doing this with Cyrus IMAPd for about two years. You have
> > to run fetchmail as root so that it can call Cyrus' deliver
> > program (or otherwise set up the right permissions). I can give
> > more information if you have Cyrus and are curious...
>
> As root? Do you have to run cyrus on the IMAP server or on the
> client side? It so happens that I run the mail server that I am
> using mutt+IMAP to access, but I need an end-user solution...
> Right now, I could do it manually. Use 'l' with pattern
> '~t root@' to get all of the root mail, and then tag all of them
> and save them to '{username@imapsever}root'.
> It seems that there ought to be a way to get mutt to automatically
> do this on start up...
I haven't tried any of this since I use procmail on my server. But you
might be able to get something working by using a folder-hook push
macro which tags messages like you would with your limit command, then
saves them to the appropriate mailbox and syncs.
