Re: ProcMail, WAS: Re: Fetchmail and Gmail

2009-09-01 Thread Micha Feigin
On Tue, 1 Sep 2009 05:51:49 -0400 Paul Cartwright wrote: > On Tue August 25 2009, Micha wrote: > > > what benefit would I get from procmail? > > > > 1. The ability to move from kmail to something else if you want without > > rewriting your rules. > > good idea.. I like that, especially when test

Re: ProcMail, WAS: Re: Fetchmail and Gmail

2009-09-01 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2009-09-01 05:19, Paul Cartwright wrote: On Tue September 1 2009, Ron Johnson wrote: If your "person message store" is an mbox file, then I'd: this is the part I can't figure out.. I don't have an mbox setup on kmail, I don't see a way for it to read an mbox folder.. I tried to create an m

Re: ProcMail, WAS: Re: Fetchmail and Gmail

2009-09-01 Thread Paul Cartwright
On Tue September 1 2009, Ron Johnson wrote: > If your "person message store" is an mbox file, then I'd: this is the part I can't figure out.. I don't have an mbox setup on kmail, I don't see a way for it to read an mbox folder.. I tried to create an mbox folder in an account, but I don't see any

Re: ProcMail, WAS: Re: Fetchmail and Gmail

2009-09-01 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2009-09-01 04:51, Paul Cartwright wrote: [snip] right now, on my system I have icedove, evolution, kmail, and claws, all setup for my local user. procmail seems to move the mail into an mbox file, and I haven't figured out how to get any email program to read an mbox folder. But you see,

Re: ProcMail, WAS: Re: Fetchmail and Gmail

2009-09-01 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2009-09-01 04:45, Paul Cartwright wrote: On Tue August 25 2009, Chris Jones wrote: but looking at the procmailrc( now non-existant), then thinking about my 200 kmail filters, I'm not sure I could tackle that task.. As another poster hinted, this is another example of the hidden benefits of c

Re: ProcMail, WAS: Re: Fetchmail and Gmail

2009-09-01 Thread Paul Cartwright
On Tue August 25 2009, Micha wrote: > > what benefit would I get from procmail? > > 1. The ability to move from kmail to something else if you want without > rewriting your rules. good idea.. I like that, especially when testing different email programs. > 2. The ability to pull mail without havi

Re: ProcMail, WAS: Re: Fetchmail and Gmail

2009-09-01 Thread Paul Cartwright
On Tue August 25 2009, Chris Jones wrote: > > but looking at the procmailrc( now non-existant), then thinking about > > my 200 kmail filters, I'm not sure I could tackle that task.. > > As another poster hinted, this is another example of the hidden benefits > of cloning the Microsoft model. I'm n

Re: ProcMail, WAS: Re: Fetchmail and Gmail

2009-08-26 Thread Celejar
On Wed, 26 Aug 2009 00:30:03 -0400 Chris Jones wrote: > On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 10:57:01PM EDT, Celejar wrote: > > On Tue, 25 Aug 2009 13:32:21 +0300 > > Micha wrote: > > > ... > > > > 3. Text file with regular expression based rules that you know where > > > it resides and can back it up and

Re: ProcMail, WAS: Re: Fetchmail and Gmail

2009-08-26 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 12:30:03AM -0400, Chris Jones wrote: > On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 10:57:01PM EDT, Celejar wrote: > > On Tue, 25 Aug 2009 13:32:21 +0300 > > Micha wrote: > > > ... > > > > 3. Text file with regular expression based rules that you know where > > > it resides and can back it up

Re: ProcMail, WAS: Re: Fetchmail and Gmail

2009-08-25 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2009-08-25 23:30, Chris Jones wrote: On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 10:57:01PM EDT, Celejar wrote: On Tue, 25 Aug 2009 13:32:21 +0300 Micha wrote: ... 3. Text file with regular expression based rules that you know where it resides and can back it up and human read it As the resident Sylphe

Re: ProcMail, WAS: Re: Fetchmail and Gmail

2009-08-25 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Tue, Aug 25 2009, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Mon,24.Aug.09, 20:56:27, Paul Cartwright wrote: > >> but looking at the procmailrc( now non-existant), then thinking about my 200 >> kmail filters, I'm not sure I could tackle that task.. > > maildir (and procmail too as I hear, but I don't like its

Re: ProcMail, WAS: Re: Fetchmail and Gmail

2009-08-25 Thread Chris Jones
On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 10:57:01PM EDT, Celejar wrote: > On Tue, 25 Aug 2009 13:32:21 +0300 > Micha wrote: > ... > > 3. Text file with regular expression based rules that you know where > > it resides and can back it up and human read it > As the resident Sylpheed fanboy, I must point out that

Re: ProcMail, WAS: Re: Fetchmail and Gmail

2009-08-25 Thread Celejar
On Tue, 25 Aug 2009 13:44:57 +0300 Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Ma,25.aug.09, 13:32:21, Micha wrote: > > > On the downside, if you want to explicitly pull mail now, pulling > > mail from kmail doesn't pull the mail off your accounts, you need to > > do that explicitly from the command line > > N

Re: ProcMail, WAS: Re: Fetchmail and Gmail

2009-08-25 Thread Celejar
On Tue, 25 Aug 2009 13:32:21 +0300 Micha wrote: > On 8/24/2009 11:34 PM, Paul Cartwright wrote: > > On Mon August 24 2009, Micha wrote: > >> Personally I use fetchmail + procmail to fetch and filter my mail > > > > I use fetchmail to pull in my mail for all my domain accounts. Kmail pulls > > it

Re: ProcMail, WAS: Re: Fetchmail and Gmail

2009-08-25 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2009-08-25 18:29, Chris Jones wrote: On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 03:02:44PM EDT, Ron Johnson wrote: On 2009-08-25 13:55, Chris Jones wrote: On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 08:56:27PM EDT, Paul Cartwright wrote: [..] but looking at the procmailrc( now non-existant), then thinking about my 200 kmail f

Re: ProcMail, WAS: Re: Fetchmail and Gmail

2009-08-25 Thread Chris Jones
On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 03:02:44PM EDT, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 2009-08-25 13:55, Chris Jones wrote: >> On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 08:56:27PM EDT, Paul Cartwright wrote: >> >> [..] >>> but looking at the procmailrc( now non-existant), then thinking >>> about my 200 kmail filters, I'm not sure I could

Re: ProcMail, WAS: Re: Fetchmail and Gmail

2009-08-25 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2009-08-25 13:55, Chris Jones wrote: On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 08:56:27PM EDT, Paul Cartwright wrote: [..] but looking at the procmailrc( now non-existant), then thinking about my 200 kmail filters, I'm not sure I could tackle that task.. As another poster hinted, this is another example of

Re: ProcMail, WAS: Re: Fetchmail and Gmail

2009-08-25 Thread Chris Jones
On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 08:56:27PM EDT, Paul Cartwright wrote: [..] > but looking at the procmailrc( now non-existant), then thinking about > my 200 kmail filters, I'm not sure I could tackle that task.. As another poster hinted, this is another example of the hidden benefits of cloning the Micr

Re: ProcMail, WAS: Re: Fetchmail and Gmail

2009-08-25 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Ma,25.aug.09, 13:32:21, Micha wrote: > On the downside, if you want to explicitly pull mail now, pulling > mail from kmail doesn't pull the mail off your accounts, you need to > do that explicitly from the command line Not very familiar with kmail, but claws-mail (sylpheed too?) has configur

Re: ProcMail, WAS: Re: Fetchmail and Gmail

2009-08-25 Thread Micha
On 8/24/2009 11:34 PM, Paul Cartwright wrote: On Mon August 24 2009, Micha wrote: Personally I use fetchmail + procmail to fetch and filter my mail I use fetchmail to pull in my mail for all my domain accounts. Kmail pulls it all in via my local user. From there I have many, MANY filters to pu

Re: ProcMail, WAS: Re: Fetchmail and Gmail

2009-08-25 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Mon,24.Aug.09, 20:56:27, Paul Cartwright wrote: > but looking at the procmailrc( now non-existant), then thinking about my 200 > kmail filters, I'm not sure I could tackle that task.. maildir (and procmail too as I hear, but I don't like its syntax) is *very* powerful. I recently did a major

Re: ProcMail, WAS: Re: Fetchmail and Gmail

2009-08-24 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2009-08-24 19:56, Paul Cartwright wrote: On Mon August 24 2009, Ron Johnson wrote: But if Paul is asking the benefit of procmail over competing MDAs like maildrop, then the benefit is cryptic line noise a la Perl. what I'm asking is.. will it benefit me to change the way I do email and add

RE: ProcMail, WAS: Re: Fetchmail and Gmail

2009-08-24 Thread Kevin Ross
> From: Paul Cartwright [mailto:a...@pcartwright.com] > Sent: Monday, August 24, 2009 5:56 PM > > On Mon August 24 2009, Ron Johnson wrote: > > But if Paul is asking the benefit of procmail over competing MDAs > > like maildrop, then the benefit is cryptic line noise a la Perl. > > what I'm aski

Re: ProcMail, WAS: Re: Fetchmail and Gmail

2009-08-24 Thread Paul Cartwright
On Mon August 24 2009, Ron Johnson wrote: > But if Paul is asking the benefit of procmail over competing MDAs > like maildrop, then the benefit is cryptic line noise a la Perl. what I'm asking is.. will it benefit me to change the way I do email and add another program into the mix. right now I d

Re: ProcMail, WAS: Re: Fetchmail and Gmail

2009-08-24 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2009-08-24 17:11, Kevin Ross wrote: From: Paul Cartwright [mailto:a...@pcartwright.com] Sent: Monday, August 24, 2009 1:35 PM On Mon August 24 2009, Micha wrote: Personally I use fetchmail + procmail to fetch and filter my mail I use fetchmail to pull in my mail for all my domain accounts.

RE: ProcMail, WAS: Re: Fetchmail and Gmail

2009-08-24 Thread Kevin Ross
> From: Paul Cartwright [mailto:a...@pcartwright.com] > Sent: Monday, August 24, 2009 1:35 PM > > On Mon August 24 2009, Micha wrote: > > Personally I use fetchmail + procmail to fetch and filter my mail > > I use fetchmail to pull in my mail for all my domain accounts. Kmail > pulls it > all in