On 05May2019 23:12, benfi...@gmail.com <benfi...@gmail.com> wrote:
I moved to using offlineimap to sync my gmail to a local Maildir
format, then I point mutt at the local filesystem.
This has greatly improved my mutt experience. Loading large folders is
far snappier.
I'm not that enamoured with gmail filtering,
Me either, it's rubbish.
I'll describe what I do below.
and I'd like to be able to control
filtering at the Maildir level, then have offlineimap sync the changes back up
to the server side.
So a typical example might be, assuming I have no gmail filters setup and
everything is dumped into my INBOX.
- mutt mailing list email arrives at gmail into INBOX
- offlineimap pulls this down to my local $Maildir/INBOX/new
- post-sync hook runs and moves the email to $Maildir/Mutt/new
- offlineimap syncs back up on the server side, deleting from INBOX and writing
to Mutt
I've used gmail as an example here but I'm also looking to implement a similar
solution at work where I have to use Microsoft Exchange server, which has a
really
terrible rules interface.
Ny mail filtering is maildir based. I fetch from my ISP with getmail
which simply delivers to my "+spool" maildir. My mail filer watches that
directory and filters anything which lands there.
To use such a scheme for gmail I'd imagine watching the local INBOX
maildir and filtering everything which shows up; one side effect is that
INBOX would stop being your inbox, and something else would need to
become so.
My mail filer is here:
https://pypi.org/project/cs.app.mailfiler/
which installs a "mailfiler" command along with it. I imagine there may
be other maildir focussed filter programmes out there. Mine has simple
rules for the simple stuff and a decent syntax for arbitrary stuff, and
does a proper parse of the mail headers unlike procmail's regexp based
approach.
Happy to go into more detail if you want it, either on my filtering flow
(spool->spool-in->(many-places)) of the mailfiler command itself.
Cheers,
Cameron Simpson <c...@cskk.id.au>
