On Wed, 2015-12-02 at 14:03 -0500, Paul Smith wrote:
> On Wed, 2015-12-02 at 13:48 -0500, dave boland wrote:
> > Thanks for the insight. There is an IMAP option in Evolution to
> > synchronize the email, but I have not found much info about this
> > option.
> > Does anyone know what it does and the pros/cons?
> >
> > My objective is to have a local copy (on my computer or email server)
> > of
> > all sent and received email, while leaving about 4 months worth on the
> > isp server for remote use. periodically, I take the email from the
> > inbox and sent and place them in subject folders.
> >
> > My question is how do I do that with Evolution, or any email
> > application?
>
> Different email applications have different facilities so I can't speak
> to them all. This isn't a capability supported by the IMAP protocol.
>
> For Evolution, one option is to select all the messages you want to
> archive and drag them to your "On This Computer" INBOX which should copy
> them onto your local disk. Then you can delete those selected files
> from your IMAP account.
>
> You can make new folders in the "On This Computer" with dates and copy
> all the email up to that date to that folder, or whatever.
>
> I have not ever tried this, note. You shouldn't delete email from your
> server until you've verified it's all present as expected in the local
> folders.
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i think you could probably create a filter to copy all incoming email to
a local maildir email account
Note though that if an email client other than evo *sees* the email
first, then when evo downloads it it will not by default process the
email through filters ( as it is not *new*), you'd have to manually
force the email to be filtered (highlight and CTRL-Y, etc)
alternatively
i do this for my fastmail account via fetchmail and procmail
you would want to read up on and understand fetchmail and procmail
if you wish to attempt it, google has numerous *tutorials* etc...
i've pulled some pertinent information from my config below.
the MAILDIR listed below is then configured as an account in evolution
$ sudo cat /etc/fetchmailrc
# Configuration created Thu Jul 23 09:44:11 2009 by fetchmailconf 1.54
$Revision: 5165 $
set postmaster "rthompso"
set bouncemail
set no spambounce
set properties ""
#set daemon 120
set daemon 60
# see /var/log/mail/current
set syslog
#set idfile /var/lib/fetchmail/.fetchids ## they are here
...snip...
poll mail.messagingengine.com with proto IMAP bad-header accept interval 2
user 'myemaila...@fastmail.fm' there with password 'mypassword' is
'rthompso' here options ssl fetchall mda "/usr/bin/procmail -d %T"
...snip...
---------end of fetchmailrc cat -----
NOTE: in the information below
MAILDIR=$HOME/.maildir-sent/ is a maildir format folder
you can use evo to create this folder i think...
you can probably remove all the spam and bogofilter segments, all you
really need is to get the email in the maildir folder appropriately
$ cat .procmailrc
LOGFILE=/tmp/procmailrc.log
VERSBOSE=no
MAILDIR=$HOME/.maildir-sent/
DEFAULT=$MAILDIR
BOGOFILTER_DIR=/home/rthompso/.bogofilter
### keep a temporary backup of incoming mail in case bogofilter misplaces it
:0c
.bogo-backup/
###
# We'll scan the mail with clam using the standard input, and saving the result
on the AV_REPORT variable
AV_REPORT=`clamdscan --stdout --no-summary - |sed 's/^stream: //'`
# We check if the word FOUND was in the result and save "Yes" or "No" according
to that
VIRUS=`echo $AV_REPORT|sed '/FOUND/ { s/.*/Yes/; q }; /FOUND/ !s/.*/No/'`
# formail is a filter that can alter a mail message, while keeping the correct
format. We use it here to add/alter a header called
# X-Virus with either value Yes or No
:0fw
| formail -i "X-Virus: $VIRUS"
# And if we just added "X-Virus: Yes", we will also add another header with the
scan result, and alter the subject, again, with the scan result.
# Since we are using the f flag, the mail is going to be delivered anyway.
:0fw
* ^X-Virus: Yes
| formail -i "X-Virus-Report: $AV_REPORT" -i "Subject: [Virus] $AV_REPORT"
## Silently drop all completely unreadable mail
:0:
* 1^0
^\/Subject:.*=\?(.*big5|iso-2022-jp|ISO-2022-KR|euc-kr|gb2312|ks_c_5601-1987|windows-1251|windows-1256)\?
* 1^0
^\/Content-Type:.*charset="(.*big5|iso-2022-jp|ISO-2022-KR|euc-kr|gb2312|ks_c_5601-1987|windows-1251|windows-1256)
.spam-unreadable/
####
#### bogofilter passthrough-update ####
:0fw
| /usr/bin/bogofilter -uep
#| bogofilter -p -u -l -e -v
# -p)assthrough -u)pdate, -l)og -e)xitcode 0 for spam and ham
# -v)erbose
#### begin error catcher ####
# m-a 2002-10-28
# If bogofilter failed, return the mail to the queue.
# Better put this after _EACH_ delivering recipe (not shown here).
# Later, the MTA will try again to deliver it.
# 75 is the value for EX_TEMPFAIL in /usr/include/sysexits.h
#
# Originally published by Philip Guenther on the postfix-users
# mailing list.
:0e
{
EXITCODE=75
HOST
}
#### end error catcher ####
:0:
* ^X-Bogosity: (Spam|Yes)
.spam-bogofilter/
# put copy error catcher here to avoid fallthrough
# unnecessary in twostate mode:
:0:
* ^X-Bogosity: Unsure
.unsure-bogofilter/
# put another copy of error catcher here to avoid fallthrough
#### end bogofilter passthrough-update ####
# myemaila...@fastmail.fm to appropriate folder
:0
* ^To:.*myemailaddr\@fastmail\.fm
.myemailaddr@fastmail^fm/
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