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On 02/12/07 04:01, Chris Bannister wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 10, 2007 at 07:43:37AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote:
>> IMAP is designed for what you what you want to do. Run an imapd on
>> your box (courier-imap is popular and easy) and tell you MUA to use
>> the IMAP protocol instead of mbox.
>
> Hi Ron,
>
> If you use fetchmail to get your mail from your ISP, is it still easy?
> At the moment I use fetchmail and maildrop. Once courier-imap is
> installed, do I just change my .mailfilter from say:
Yes, it's very easy. I set it up a couple of years ago and haven't
touched it since (except when I moved to a new machine, but that was
just mainly copying config files).
Also, my mail data flow is:
fetchmail -> postfix -> SpamAssassin -> maildrop -> Maildir.
I fetchmail my wife's mail the same way. Windows Tbird looks over
the LAN to find it. No sweat.
> ###############################################
> # Filter debian-user list messages #
> ###############################################
> if (/^X-Loop: [EMAIL PROTECTED]/)
> {
> to "$HOME/Mail/IN-debian-user/"
> }
>
> to --
>
> ###############################################
> # Filter debian-user list messages #
> ###############################################
> if (/^X-Loop: [EMAIL PROTECTED]/)
> {
> to "$HOME/Maildir/IN-debian-user/"
> }
Mine looks like:
if ( /^X-Mailing-List:.*<debian-user@lists.debian.org>*/ )
{
to "Maildir/.Lists.Debian.User.2007q1"
}
But then, I've keep all mail, so have many folders, so that they
don't get too huge.
> (Assuming courier-imap defaults to $HOME/Maildir/)
>
> To copy an existing $HOME/Mail/ structure
> =========================================
> Can I just "cp Mail Maildir" then when I am happy just "rm -r Mail"
No. mbox & Maildir are *radically* different formats. There are
some mbox2md scripts floating around.
However, when I converted, I just used my GUI MUA to drag and drop
each folder's contents from mbox to Maildir. Took a while, but
that's what gnobots and PySol are for.
> What documentation do you recommend reading?
>
> Using the MUA to access the "$HOME/Maildir/" is another 'kettle of fish'
http://www.firstpr.com.au/web-mail/RH90-Postfix-Courier-Maildrop-IMAP/
Doing it with Debian is boatloads easier, so most of it is
irrelevant, but it did (does) work for me.
> For mutt:
> Mutt and IMAP (maintained by Brendan Cully)
> http://mutt.sourceforge.net/imap/
Not really. Here are the relevant lines from ~/.muttrc :
set imap_user=XXXX
set spoolfile=imap://haggis/INBOX
set folder=imap://haggis/INBOX.
set move=no
set copy=yes
set record=imap://haggis/INBOX/Sent
set realname="XXXXXXXXXX"
folder-hook . my_hdr From: XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
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