On Wed, Nov 07, 2012 at 01:04:17PM -0500, Tim Gray wrote: > On Nov 07, 2012 at 02:15 PM +0000, Chris Green wrote: > >I *don't* like procmail configuration files, they're one of the reasons > >I wrote my own. > > > >What does everyone else here do for collecting mail and filtering mail > >with mutt? > > I use getmail and dovecot deliver. Getmail is great, fast, and
I had a look at dovecot deliver, I make take another look. > flexible (and supports the OS X keychain, which I like). Dovecot is > a bit overkill for just a filtering solution since it's a full IMAP > server. However, I find dovecot deliver (which uses the sieve > language for filtering) to be much more readable/writable than > procmail. An added bonus is that my main IMAP account has sieve on I think anything is more readable than procmail! :-) > the server, so I can filter mail remotely there using the same > syntax as I do with my other accounts using getmail. > > I've looked into other solutions that are more compatible with > offlineimap, like imapfilter (which I believe moves message server > side, but is run from as a remote client) and a few other lesser > known local solutions, like maildirproc, but in the end, sieve was > the most straight forward for my setup. There seem to be very few currently maintained MDA/filters. Thanks. -- Chris Green
