Re: Client "daemon" for sorting e-mail via IMAP
On Thu, 24 Jan 2013, Lázaro wrote:
aptitude search sieve|grep mailutils
I realised after I posted that I'd failed to state _why_ I switched to
imapfilter rather than continuing to use one of the myriad of delivery
filtering solutions available.
Over 15-20 years my ideas on how I want to sort my mail have changed
significantly. I could simple resubmit all my email to the MTA and then
re-sort it but this would alter the mail messages, which I don't want to
do. What I want today is to be able to sort and re-sort my mail from time
to time and leave it contents and headers unchanged.
I considered the 'fetchmail -m procmail' option mentioned earlier in the
thread but decided to go for something a little more ambitious which led
me to imapfilter.
Also, I never really liked Sieve much :)
My plan for the near future:
I have old mail that needs to be re-sorted. While I could re-sort
everything periodically this is resource intensive (with a lot of mail)
and would be fairly inefficient as most of the mail would not need to be
re-sorted.
I'm going to be using an opportunistic approach. Every day (or every few
hours) a script will randomly pick a mailbox and re-sort the contents.
Thus over time my mail will approach a state of 'full sortedness' :)
Cheers,
Rob
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