On Wed, Nov 07, 2012 at 07:17:46PM +0200, Nikola Petrov wrote: > On Wed, Nov 07, 2012 at 02:15:41PM +0000, Chris Green wrote: > > I currently have my mail delivered to my desktop system using SMTP as > > the system is on all the time and has a static IP. > > > > However I always get paranoid when I reconfigure it and/or do other > > maintenance so I'm considering moving back to a fetchmail/getmail based > > system. > > > > I also have a fairly complex mail filtering script I wrote myself in > > Python which is fed mail via .forward. > > > > > > What's the current "state of the art" way to collect mail and deliver it > > through a filtering system to mutt? If I can do this all in one program > > than so much the better but I'm happy with two programs if that would > > work better. I can stay with my existing filter system but, again, if I > > can consolidate things into one, easier to maintain, chunk then I'd be > > happy. > > > > > > I *don't* like procmail configuration files, they're one of the reasons > > I wrote my own. > > > > > > What does everyone else here do for collecting mail and filtering mail > > with mutt? > > I am using imapfilter with lua configuration file for my imap account. > That does the job for me and I like the fact that I declare my filters > with actual code(be it lua, python or what not) > How does that actually work? I've found its home at https://github.com/lefcha/imapfilter but the documentation doesn't really tell me what it does (maybe my fault!).
Does it move E-Mails around on the IMAP server, or does it collect them from the IMAP server and deliver them to you locally? Or does it do something else? -- Chris Green
