[plug] procmail

[Michael Hunt]

On Sat, 2003-09-20 at 20:03, William Kenworthy wrote:

> My opinion of cyrus imap is a little different.  
> 
> I read the same mailbox at home and work using evolution on both
> machines (and sometimes IE, or squirrelmail when elsewhere.  The *^&&*%&
> thing keeps forgetting if a mail gets deleted in one client, it should
> stay deleted and not come back when opening the other client!  Its
> probably mostly evolutions fault as IE, pine and and squirrelmails ok -
> but cyrus imap is partly to blame as my work mailbox doesnt exhibit
> these symptoms.  One day it'll annoy me enough to change back to UW-imap
> (or better yet, try another one).  

I like cyrus IMAP and have been using it for well on 5 years. Everytime
I try UW-IMAP it breaks on me and I end up going back to cyrus. I
haven't tried some of the other imap servers and just taking a look at
imap servers in unstable (debian) there a quite a few I haven't heard
about before and sound quite interesting.

<snipped from aptitiude package list>

bincimap - IMAP server for Maildir depositories
courier-imap - Courier Mail Server - IMAP daemon
cyrus-imapd - CMU Cyrus mail system (IMAP support)
cyrus21-imapd - Cyrus mail system (IMAP support)
dovecot-imapd - A secure IMAP server that supports mbox and maildir
mailboxes
mailutils-imap4d - GNU Mailutils-based IMAP4 Daemon
uw-imapd - remote mail folder access server

I plan with my next server upgrade (hopefully arounf Christmas time when
I am on holidays and have time to do it - and when Sarge comes out if
ever) to give some of the different IMAP servers a test and put them
through there paces and see how they compare to my current situation.

Another intersting package I stumbled upon is offlineimap which might
just solve the problen you are having. Personally I haven't used it but
it looks interesting.

Package: offlineimap
Priority: optional
Section: mail
Installed-Size: 564
Maintainer: John Goerzen <jgoerzen at complete.org>
Architecture: all
Version: 4.0.0
Depends: python2.2
Suggests: python2.2-tk
Filename: pool/main/o/offlineimap/offlineimap_4.0.0_all.deb
Size: 183914
MD5sum: b60d7ff28fe852edccb1855b5f133602
Description: IMAP/Maildir synchronization and reader support
 OfflineIMAP is a tool to simplify your e-mail reading.  With
 OfflimeIMAP, you can:
 .
  * Read the same mailbox from multiple computers, and have your
    changes (deletions, etc.) be automatically reflected on
    all computers
 .
  * Use various mail clients to read a single mail box
 .
  * Read mail while offline (on a laptop) and have all changes
    synchronized when you get connected again
 .
  * Read IMAP mail with mail readers that do not support IMAP
 .
  * Use SSL (secure connections) to read IMAP mail even if your reader
    doesn't support SSL
 .
  * Synchronize your mail using a completely safe and fault-tolerant
    algorithm.  (At least I think it is!)
 .
  * Customize which mailboxes to synchronize with regular expressions
    or lists.
 .
  * Synchronize your mail two to four times faster than with other tools
    or other mail readers' internal IMAP support.
 .
 In short, OfflineIMAP is a tool to let you read mail how YOU want to.

> Then there's also the refusal to behave when a header, subject or sender
> has some > chr(200) - not sure which ones, its probably unicode as its
> usually of asian/balkans origin - so I have to trawl the mailbox (perl
> of course!) and delete the offender before being able to access the
> mail.  This ones serious, as Murhpy generally makes it happen after a
> holiday when I have a few thousand emails ....  Yet strangely, the same
> characters in the message body are ignored.

Haven't seen anything like that here. Generally I keep my inbox pretty
well clear by filling away mail in other folders and I make sure I
expunge mail that I delete and don't just hide it. (Ctrl-E in
evolution). At anyone time my inbox has only a handful of mail meesages
in it and these are usually about things I have to do or reply to.

> BillK

Michael Hunt


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