On Mon, Feb 12, 2007 at 11:01:56PM +1300, Chris Bannister wrote:
>
> If you use fetchmail to get your mail from your ISP, is it still easy?
> At the moment I use fetchmail and maildrop. Once courier-imap is
> installed, do I just change my .mailfilter from say:
>
> ###############################################
> # Filter debian-user list messages #
> ###############################################
> if (/^X-Loop: debian-user@lists\.debian\.org$/)
> {
> to "$HOME/Mail/IN-debian-user/"
> }
>
> to --
>
> ###############################################
> # Filter debian-user list messages #
> ###############################################
> if (/^X-Loop: debian-user@lists\.debian\.org$/)
> {
> to "$HOME/Maildir/IN-debian-user/"
> }
>
> (Assuming courier-imap defaults to $HOME/Maildir/)
>
That looks right. I have used fetchmail on machines running IMAP and
never had a problem with fetchmail delivering straight into my Maildir.
Personally, I don't like clutter in my $HOME, so I changed the courier
config to use ~/.Maildir instead of ~/Maildir.
> To copy an existing $HOME/Mail/ structure
> =========================================
> Can I just "cp Mail Maildir" then when I am happy just "rm -r Mail"
>
Is ~/Mail already in Maildir format? If not, I'd say the best bet is to
setup courier-imap and then use something like procmail to bounce every
message in ~/Mail back to yourself.
> What documentation do you recommend reading?
>
> Using the MUA to access the "$HOME/Maildir/" is another 'kettle of fish'
>
> For mutt:
> Mutt and IMAP (maintained by Brendan Cully)
> http://mutt.sourceforge.net/imap/
>
I've never had a problem with mutt and IMAP (using it now). I just set
the default folder as imaps://user@host/INBOX and it works fine. I
forget the exact settings, but they are well documented. If you need
them, I can post mine out of my own config.
Regards,
-Roberto
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Roberto C. Sanchez
http://people.connexer.com/~roberto
http://www.connexer.com
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