[ale] Personal e-mail setup for remote access

[Greg Freemyer]

Thanks Mike,

I've used procmail before.

It is imap that is new to me, so I did not realize there was a good tie-in.

Since I do have a bunch of evolution rules, does anyone know of a better
way to configure procmail than simply using vi?

ie. I like vi, but evolution has that really nice "create filter based on
e-mail message" feature where you just say it is a mailing list, and it
does all the pattern matching work for you.  I guess I have gotten
spoiled.

Greg
-- 
Greg Freemyer

Mike Murphy said:
> Procmail. Most distros come with it installed, and often with the
> tie-ins to your mta already in place (for instance, it just works with
> sendmail on fedora core 1). Try grepping postfix's config file(s) for
> "procmail" to see if its already "activated" (I assume you have to have
> a rule in postfix like sendmail, but I'm not that familiar with
> postfix). It will process mail destined for your inbox. Rules are pretty
> easy once you get the hang of things. Google for procmail tutorial or
> procmail recipes for a number of good guides to its use, however, here's
> an abridged version of my .procmailrc:
>
> SHELL=/bin/sh
> MAILDIR=${HOME}/mail
> DATE=`/bin/date %s`
> LOGFILE=${HOME}/.procmail.log
> LOG="--- Logging ${LOGFILE} for ${LOGNAME}, "
>
> :0fw
> | /usr/bin/spamassassin
>
> :0:
> * ^X-Spam-Status: Yes
> | cat >> /dev/null
>
> :0 :${HOME}/.locks/ale$LOCKTEXT
> * ^To.*ale at ale.org
> | cat >> ${HOME}/mail/ale
>
> Note the general configuration at the top, some stuff for handling spam
> (including the spamassasin tie-in), and my recipe for putting everything
> from the ALE mailing list in its own folder. I use procmail for all this
> sort of work, not individual mail readers (makes it much easier to use
> pine/thunderbird/squirellmail depending on situation, physical location,
> and net connection.
>
> Mike
>
>
> Greg Freemyer wrote:
>
>> With imap where do I setup overall rules for moving e-mail into
>> sub-folders?
>>
>> ie. Is there a common place I can filter and not have to have rules in
>> various imap clients?
>>
>> I have the below working:
>>
>> fetchmail --> postfix --> Maildir --> Courier Imap
>>       --> evolution
>>       --> squirrelmail
>>
>> Over the last year or so I have created lots of filter rules in
>> evolution
>> (20 or 30 I guess).  They are still working (I think, I'm remote right
>> now.)
>>
>> But if I access my e-mail via squirrelmail, all of my new e-mail is
>> sitting in the INBOX.  Normally I only have a few unfiltered e-mails in
>> there.
>>
>> Thanks
>> Greg
>>
>>
>>>On Mon, 2004-02-16 at 19:39, John Wells wrote:
>>>
>>>>On Mon, 16 Feb 2004 13:58:18 -0500
>>>>Greg Freemyer <freemyer-ml at NorcrossGroup.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>I'm thinking of setting up the below, comments are appreciated:
>>>>>
>>>>>1) Use fetchmail to retrieve my pop3 e-mail and drop it into my linux
>>
>> desktops sendmail.
>>
>>>>>2) Setup a imap server on my desktop.
>>>>>
>>>>>3) Re-conifigure evolution to manage the imap mailbox instead of
>>
>> maintaining its own.
>>
>>>>>4) Also access/manage the imap mailbox from my house via a imap
>>>>
>>>>client.
>>>>Greg,
>>>>Why not set up SquirrelMail (www.squirrelmail.org) running with
>>
>> Apache/SSL?  Has worked quite well for me for a few years now...
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>>>
>>>Looks interesting.  I will try it out.
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>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
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