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Date:      Tue, 8 May 2001 13:30:53 +0100 (BST)
From:      Jan Grant <Jan.Grant@bristol.ac.uk>
To:        Matt Cowger <mcowger@bowdoin.edu>
Cc:        freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: OT: filter IMAP mail
Message-ID:  <Pine.GSO.4.31.0105081328070.4145-100000@mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk>
In-Reply-To: <000901c0d76c$3efd6e90$52858c8b@mcfly>

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On Mon, 7 May 2001, 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'd look for filtering on delivery. Procmail is adequate if baroque
(rule sets look like sendmail configs to the uninitiated). Depending on
your IMAP server, you may have imap delivery filtering (eg, with SIEVE
on cyrus). Some MTAs support more complex .forward-file syntax, or
alternative filtering.

The "simplest" mechanism is probably to deliver everything through
procmail and sift it using some of the many rule sets out there.

-- 
jan grant, ILRT, University of Bristol. http://www.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/
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