On Wednesday 22 July 2009 10:12:04 Hugo Mills wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 07:30:23AM +0100, Timothy Brocklehurst wrote:
> > On Tuesday 21 July 2009 22:54:21 Hugo Mills wrote:
> > > Let's say I have an IMAP mail server that stores all my mail in a
> > > particular context. I don't have any control over the server itself --
> > > just access as a user.
> > >
> > > Does anyone know of anything I can use to filter my inbox on the
> > > IMAP server into different mailboxes on the same IMAP server --
> > > preferably without downloading and re-uploading the mails in
> > > question. If it supports sieve (RFC5228) rules, so much the better.
> > >
> > > I want to keep all my mails on that server -- not download them to
> > > some other machine, as I want to access them from a wide variety of
> > > places, and to take advantage of central backups.
> > >
> > > I use mutt as a mail client, so answers of the style "just set up
> > > rules in Thunderbird" will be ignored... :)
> >
> > I think you've already hit the obvious one... Sieve. just create a .sieve
> > file in your home directory and job done. An extract from mine is:
>
> Ummm... *What* home directory?
>
> The *only* access I have to my mail and the system it runs on is
> through IMAP. (This is an Exchange-based system, and the exchange
> filtering requires me to run IE merely to configure it, and it's
> utterly pointless anyway, as it only allows filters on about two
> header fields anyway).
>
> Hugo.
Ah. then, no, I don't.
Tim B.
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