Re: IMAP MUA and filtering
Hi Matthew,
On Tue, Jan 16, 2001 at 10:59:48PM +0000, matthew@sackman.co.uk wrote:
> I have recently managed to set up Postfix, and get it to feed to the
> Cyrus IMAP server. At the moment I'm using TkRat, but am finding it a
> little restrictive.
This isn't an MUA solution, but rather a whole mail system, but it
works well for me.
maildrop is a procmail-like MDA which is packaged for debian, and is
very stable and easy to use. IMHO, its syntax is a lot easier to
understand than procmail - it uses pretty bog-standard conditionals,
curley braces, and posix regexs.
If postfix supports .forward files, you'll need something like
| maildrop -d $USER
in your .forward file (off the top of my head, could be wrong).
Next get courier-imap, which may be available for debian, but if it
isn't it's very easy to compile by hand (configure; make; make
install). It's available at www.courier-mta.com.
Courier uses maildir directories (which are supported by maildrop,
which is by the same author as courier-imap), so you just need to tell
maildrop to, say, deliver debian-user into ./Maildir/.debian-user,
which then becomes available as an imap folder.
You can then read your imap mail with mutt, which now has good support
for imap and imap browsing (hint: try "spool = {localhost}INBOX" in
your .muttrc). The IMAP client in netscape also works well with this
combination.
If you want to get really fancy, on the courier site you can also find
sqwebmail, which is a hotmail like webmail interface, which works with
the same maildirs as courier-imap. It also has a nice web interface for
writing sorting rules, so you don't have to edit your .mailfilter file
by hand to add new sorting rules.
I use effectively this combination myself, and it works really well.
> Could anyone reccomment a good MUA with good support for IMAP and
> filtering of incomming mail. I'm assuming one can't use procmail to
> filter mail as it won't work in a IMAPd (I think!), so which MUAs are
> there out there that both support IMAP and filtering?
>
> I am interested in functionality rather than a pretty GUI, and am more
> than happy with a console app if it does everything I need it to.
In this case, you can't go past mutt. Nothing with a pretty gui (even
for windows) comes near it for functionality and spead. It has somewhat
of a steep learning curve, but it's worth it.
cheers,
damon
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