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Date:      Thu, 14 Feb 2008 02:38:46 -0600
From:      Jack Barnett <jackbarnett@gmail.com>
To:        C Thala <cthala@gmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: archiving all IMAP mail?
Message-ID:  <47B3FE16.1000009@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <77647f500802140025q4ab4296bt529b41684ccad5db@mail.gmail.com>
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This is the setup I use:

external accounts (pop, imap, etc) <->fetchmail -> procmail -> 
filter&archive -> imap
local accounts -> procmail -> filter&archive -> imap

Then my imap clients connect to the imap server.

The imap server I use is courier-imap (has ssl which is nice)
then use Thunderbird for the clients (runs multiply platforms)

This setup works well, everything is auto-archived and also can get 
access to my mail from anyplace and it's the "same".
It scales well too, fairly secure and have once place to back up all my 
emails.


C Thala wrote:
> I need to strictly archive all mail sent to me.
>
> For some time I've been using fetchmail/getmail from ports to suck down
> (every 5 minutes or so) the IMAP mail sent by my ISP and send it through
> procmail where I make a copy and then archive it (I also do my filtering
> into various mailboxes in procmail).
>
> I then use my mail user agent to read the mail from a local machine.
>
> This has worked fine all these years, but now I am switching to the
> paradigm where I am checking mail from multiple clients, so I plan on
> using IMAP-aware user agents.
>
> As I understand it, these IMAP-aware user agents operate directly on the
> IMAP spool. How can I archive my mail before it reaches them? Also, how
> do I do my filtering to various mailboxes?
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