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Date:      Mon, 07 May 2001 22:27:10 -0600
From:      Chris Fedde <chris@fedde.littleton.co.us>
To:        "Matt Cowger" <mcowger@bowdoin.edu>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: OT: filter IMAP mail 
Message-ID:  <200105080427.f484RAE04784@fedde.littleton.co.us>
In-Reply-To: <000901c0d76c$3efd6e90$52858c8b@mcfly> 

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On Mon, 7 May 2001 23:09:07 -0400  "Matt Cowger" wrote:
 +------------------
 | I retrieve my mail via IMAP from a remote server over which I have no
 | conrtol (except of course, my IMAP account).
 | 
 | Is there any software that I can run on my fBSD box to check the mail in the
 | Inbox on that IMAP server, and process it?  (i.e. for SPAM, automovign
 | messages ot folders, etc.?)  I dont want to run the filter on my mail
 | client..want the fBSD box to do it.
 +------------------

I use fetchmail to get mail from several locations and dump it all
into sendmail on my local box.  I then filter messages into folders
via a .forward file using features of MH (slocal).  Others report
great success using procmail or even a perl script and the Mail::Audit
module.

YMMV

--
    Chris Fedde

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