Re: [OT] Setting up getmail to retrieve mails from gmail [Was: Re: [OT] GMail troubles [Was: Re: du-guidelines - point 7]]
On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 04:32:54PM -0400, Telemachus wrote:
> On Mon Jul 28 2008 @ 8:48, Brad Rogers wrote:
> > On Mon, 28 Jul 2008 15:33:36 -0400
> > Telemachus <telemachus@ld.net.au> wrote:
> >
> > Hello Telemachus,
> >
> > > that looks for a mail with the same title in your sent folder and
> >
> > That could be risky; If Arvind writes multiple messages in a thread,
> > checking Subject alone is insufficient to be sure the message being
> > deleted is the correct one. That's why I suggested M-ID: which is
> > unique.
>
> You are absolutely right. I was hand-waving rather than giving a proper
> solution. To really do it right, given Arvind's specific requests (keep the
> sent copy, wait for the mail to be received, then clean the corresponding
> copy from the Sent folder) really is more complicated than it seems at
> first. Sorry if I was glib.
>
> I don't believe that Mutt by itself can do what you described. It sounds
> more to me like a multi-part problem:
>
> (1) Have procmail scan for messages that are from Arvind himself & to this
> user list.
> (2) When such a mail is found, execute a script (let's go with Perl).
> (3) The Perl script receives the ID from procmail (maybe as an argument?),
> then it runs through the mails in the Sent folder. If it finds a matching
> ID on a mail, it deletes that item.
>
> I'll be curious to know if anyone has a way to do this just with Mutt, but
> it strikes me that Mutt doesn't have "received-hooks" quite like what this
> would need.
That is why procmail has formail and maildrop has reformail.
--
Chris.
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