Re: Exim, Cyrus, Mutt + what?

[Tom Allison <tallison@tacocat.net>]

steve downes wrote:
> I am using debian testing with:-
>
> Exim 3.36
> Cyrus 1.5
> Mutt 1.5.5
>
> Very happy with it but want to add an auto mail sort to pre sort
> mailing lists out from work mail into other boxes to read at my
> leisure. Also a bit of spam sorting would not go amiss.
>
> The choices I have been looking at are
>
> Cyrus 2.1 (poor documentation, looks complex to set up & no idea how
>       well it works)
> Procmail (looks good but cannot see how to integrate it into cyrus)
>
> But the documentation I find insufficient to get a clear picture of
> what is possible. Any thoughts, pointers, or comments gratefully
> received.
>
> Steve
>
>
Not the answer you are looking for, but my experience went like this:

postfix
procmail
courier-imap

You can interchange postfix with exim easily enough.

I was never successful at getting procmail to work with cyrus and the
cyrus documentation is extremely poor.  I tried for 3 months as was very
put out by the lack of support available.  These guys who developed
cyrus did a good product, but the entry barrier is huge.

courier-imap and uw-imap are nice products.  uw-imap only does mbox file.