On Tue, 30 Mar 2010 10:50:43 Carlos E. R. wrote:
On Monday, 2010-03-29 at 19:23 -0400, Patrick Shanahan wrote:
But that will push the email back to postfix, spamassassin, the lot (and add a lot of headers). I was thinking of something to push mail direct into the imap server, like the move operation inside a client, that doesn't change anything.
You are correct.
But your example will create a loop....
Perhaps you need a second imap account and forward unhandled (?) mail there, but I don't see that as a solution to your question. I believe that your only solution is to retain internet access and access the mail on your imap server or dl all to your own box and ssh into it to handle mail (this is what I do). I carry putty on a stick and can access my home box from nearly anywhere using my own laptop or someone else's windoz box.
Let me try to explain again.
My mail is fetched by fetchmail, passed to postfix, amavis, spamsassassin, and procmail finally distributes it on to dozens of folders. This setup is years old and I'm not going to change it.
Carlos, I use fetchmail to download the mail and use sendmail as the local MDA. Procmail runs all incoming mail through spamassassin and then sorts mail into multiple folders (in maildir format) based on defined rules (e.g. sorting into folders for various mail lists). The last rule puts all so-far unhandled rule into the inbox folder. Dovecot reads the maildir format natively (with default config files) and serves the mail via IMAP both locally (to mail clients on the same machine) and to a couple of laptops on the lan. I don't use disconnected IMAP because I don't need that for remote use. I was running squirrelmail to allow webmail access remotely but I don't currently have that running. I have used this setup since FC4 days before moving to oS 10.3, 11.0, 11.2 and it has continued to work flawlessly. I've used Kmail, Thunderbird, Opera, Evolution , Outlook and Outlook Express at different times and all work fine (Outlook/Outlook Express being the least IMAP-friendly). This way I get my entire mail store available either locally or across the lan, and if I setup squirrelmail again (or another webmail solution e.g. eGroupWare) I'll also have full access to it across the 'net anywhere I have access to a web browser. The same setup should work with Postfix and mbox format if you prefer that to maildir (although I suspect the mail sorting using procmail may be more difficult). BTW, my mail directory is /home/USER/Mail. Regards, Rodney. -- =================================================== Rodney Baker VK5ZTV rodney.baker@iinet.net.au =================================================== -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org