On Sun, May 15, 2016 at 11:04:54PM +0100, Paul Tansom wrote: > ** Joel Buckley <m...@spam.joelbuckley.com.au> [2016-05-15 12:39]: > > On Sun, May 15, 2016 at 10:30:49AM +0100, Chris Green wrote: > > >As per the subject is it possible for mutt to do something to an > > >E-Mail in its inbox without the user seeing/doing anything at all? > > > > > >E.g. is there some sort of hook that can, for example, reply to or > > >delete an E-Mail from a specific address without any user interaction? > > > > > No, that's not what mutt does. What you're looking for is a mail delivery > > agent (MDA). > > > > Look at something like procmail or Maildrop, which integrate with your mail > > transfer agent (MTA). > > > ** end quote [Joel Buckley] > > I tend to use Sieve for this sort of thing now. I've used IMAP for mail for > what must be around 20 years now (initially with Netscape at the client and > server side, later Exim and Cyrus, and now Exim and Dovecot). I used to use > Procmail, but now I use Sieve and find it much easier to work with, probably > mainly because it is integrated into the mail server. This does rely on either > control of the mail server being used, or at least being given control of your > own Sieve scripts. > That's interesting, thank you. I run the mail server for my own mail, it's postfix on my desktop machine which is on all the time. It might be that sieve will be more flexible and has more facilities than my own Python MTA.
-- Chris Green
