Re: Fetchmail and Netscape

[Erik Steffl <steffl@bigfoot.com>]

Marc Shapiro wrote:
> 
> I use Netscape Communicator 4.77 for my e-mail client.  (So fa,r, I
> haven't found anythiong else that I am happier with.)  Sometimes,
> however, its mail filtering just doesn't seem to work quite right.  I am
> thinking about using fetchmail to get my POP3 mail.  I have done this
> before, though not recently, and I think that I can get it working
> again.
> 
> My question, however, is how do I filter the mail into Netscape's
> mailboxes?  Do I just set my server preferences to say that I am using
> movemail and then have procmail (or something like it) sort directly
> into Netscape's mailboxes, since it uses the standard mbox format?

  yes, even though IMO using IMAP is better (generally). depending o
which IAMP server you'd use you would go with procmail or sieve (cyrus).

> Is procmail the best program to use for filtering, or does anyone have
> other suggestions?

  there is some fairly interesting perl module, don't remember the name
but I guess you can find it on cpan.org

	erik