On Wed, Nov 07, 2012 at 05:35:45PM +0000, Chris Green wrote: > On Wed, Nov 07, 2012 at 07:17:46PM +0200, Nikola Petrov wrote: > > On Wed, Nov 07, 2012 at 02:15:41PM +0000, Chris Green wrote: > > > I currently have my mail delivered to my desktop system using SMTP as > > > the system is on all the time and has a static IP. > > > > > > However I always get paranoid when I reconfigure it and/or do other > > > maintenance so I'm considering moving back to a fetchmail/getmail based > > > system. > > > > > > I also have a fairly complex mail filtering script I wrote myself in > > > Python which is fed mail via .forward. > > > > > > > > > What's the current "state of the art" way to collect mail and deliver it > > > through a filtering system to mutt? If I can do this all in one program > > > than so much the better but I'm happy with two programs if that would > > > work better. I can stay with my existing filter system but, again, if I > > > can consolidate things into one, easier to maintain, chunk then I'd be > > > happy. > > > > > > > > > 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 am using imapfilter with lua configuration file for my imap account. > > That does the job for me and I like the fact that I declare my filters > > with actual code(be it lua, python or what not) > > > How does that actually work? I've found its home at > https://github.com/lefcha/imapfilter > but the documentation doesn't really tell me what it does (maybe my fault!). > > Does it move E-Mails around on the IMAP server, or does it collect them > from the IMAP server and deliver them to you locally? Or does it do > something else?
No it doesn't deliver them to you. It sort of filters them online on the server. You can then use something like offlineimap to deliver them locally to you. I use imapfilter + offlineimap + notmuch + mutt and I am far from happy with my setup at the moment. Best, Nikola
