[lug] imap question

[Nate Duehr]

> For filtering there is little question.  Any time you use a mail
> client for this you will eventually come up short (upgrades migrations
> etc).  Procmail is the king and worth using.  There's nothing it can't
> do if you are willing to forgo pointie clickie stuff and write
> regualar expressions to do the work (much easier than extending the
> imap protocol;-).  I've heard good things also about maildrop, it's
> maybe a little simplier.

BTW, procmail's great... but if you're looking for simplicity, exim's
filters that run from the .forward file are much easier.

Example:
if $header_subject: contains "[lug]"
 then seen save $home/Mail/Linux/BLUG-list endif

:-)

p.s. Yes, I know I should be doing this off of X- headers.  ;-)

Nate Duehr, nate at natetech.com