Re: imap mail

[Alan Chandler <alan@chandlerfamily.org.uk>]

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On Tuesday 23 October 2001 1:30 pm, Andreas Leitner wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I hope this is not too offtopic here. I have now successfully set up a
> cyrus imap/exim based mail server using debian testing for my personal
> use. The goal is to use this server as my main mail archive. And there
> are lot's of mails in there, most come from mailing lists.
>

This is a bit off the wall, but have you thought of using mailman

Essentially what you can do is have your local mailman hold its own version 
of all the mailing lists that you subscribe to.  That way, assuming you also 
install a web server on your box, you can use a web interface to get at mail 
which mailman automatically archives for you at the frequency you specify

Its fairly easy to update exim.conf to link into to mailman (there is a mini 
howto at www.exim.org) and you can use exim's filter rules to direct messages 
from your external mailing lists to the internal equivalents.  You can then 
also subscribe or unsubscribe to your internal mail list if you want to see 
the mail in your inbox (and put filters in your MUA (like I do with kmail)).

The other thing you can do is gate some mailing lists to newsgroups in 
mailman.  This allows you to receive and reply to news groups as though they 
were mailing lists.


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  Alan - alan@chandlerfamily.org.uk
http://www.chandlerfamily.org.uk
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