On Mon, 11 Sep 2000, S.Toms wrote:
On Mon, 11 Sep 2000, S.Toms wrote:
st> On Mon, 11 Sep 2000 okh-linux@post.cybercity.dk wrote: st> st> ol> On Sun, 10 Sep 2000, S.Toms wrote: st> ol> > Also, how would procmail be affected by using imap? I currently have st> ol> > procmail filtering and sorting all my messages to folders relating to what st> ol> > the email is. Now if I use imap, how would that work? Can you sort them to st> ol> > a remote folders or can tehy only be sorted to the local folders? st> ol> > That's probably the only thing that confuses me about using imap, st> ol> > everything else seems self explanatory. st> ol> st> ol> You should have procmail running on the IMAP server not on the clients. st> ol> st> st> I have one box that is my samba/file/print/mail server which my st> workstations connect to. On this box, for example, I have in my personal st> folder all my procmail routines, when the mail is received, procmail is st> filtering them to the various locations I call out within my procmail st> routines. I guess what I'm wondering is, does imap recognize the st> /home/user/mail locations or will it only recognize the /var/spool/mail st> locations the way pop does. st>
Let me clarify that a bit, I realized I messed up just after I read my own post. What I'm not sure about is the Inbox folder itself. I have the /var/spool/mail/user Inbox folder and another Inbox folder in my /home/user/mail folder, ie: /home/skull/mail/Inbox which is where procmail deposits all the mail received in the /var/spool/mail/user folder that didn't get rerouted to a special folder via procmail. Can I continue to use my /home Inbox as the Inbox, or should I switch back to the /var/spool/mail/user folder as the Inbox? Hope thats not too confusing.
About 2.5 years ago, I set up 2 boxes in my office at school. One running Win95 with Outlook Express, the other running RedHat with Pine. I used both to connect to our VMS server, where I accessed my mail through IMAP. It was all very easy to set up, (took about half an hour totalled for both machines) so I don't really remember that much about what I did, but I think all I did was to tell the mail client to access that IMAP server using this username and that password, and it knew all about my mail-folders. Why don't you just try it out and see how it works? IMAP does not remove the mail from the server unless you specifically tell it to, so the only risk will be the time you might lose if it doesn't work out. Regards Ole -- Windows: Where do you want to go today? MacOS: Where do you want to be tomorrow? Linux: Are you coming or what? -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/support/faq