Re: preferred method of using imap/mutt

[Roel Schroeven <rschroev_nospam_ml@fastmail.fm>]

Cameron Matheson wrote:
> 2. mutt filters the mail into folders based on certian rules (mailing
> lists, etc.)

I've never done this, but from the description it looks like imapfilter
can do it:

$ apt-cache show imapfilter
Package: imapfilter
Priority: optional
Section: mail
Installed-Size: 148
Maintainer: Francesco Paolo Lovergine <frankie@debian.org>
Architecture: i386
Version: 1:1.0.1-2
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.3.2.ds1-4), liblua50 (>= 5.0.2-5), liblualib50 (>=
5.0.2-5), libssl0.9.7
Filename: pool/main/i/imapfilter/imapfilter_1.0.1-2_i386.deb
Size: 32268
MD5sum: f55085969e0a9f42061314679a38c87b
Description: filter mail in your IMAP account
 Imapfilter is a client application that allows you to
 filter mail in your imap mail account. When used in
 conjunction with mutt, as your precommand, it allows
 you to have your mail sorted into imap folders.


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Roel Schroeven