[Gllug] KMail's disappearing inbox

[Mike Brodbelt]

On Tue, 2003-02-11 at 12:58, Stig Brautaset wrote:
> On Feb 11 2003, Pete wrote:
> > On Fri, Feb 07, 2003 at 11:50:40PM +0000, Xander D Harkness wrote:
> > > On Fri, 2003-02-07 at 20:57, Mike Brodbelt wrote:
> > > > IMHO, you're much better of setting up and IMAP server, and then you can
> > > > chop and change mail clients easily. 
> > > I fully agree with this.
> > 
> > But can you use procmail with imap unless you actually grab the mail off the
> > server?  And disconnected reading of mail?
> 
> Yes.
> 
> procmail delivers to somewhere in your home directory, say,
> ~/Mail/inbox. I'm pretty sure uw-imapd can be reconfigured (recompiled?)
> to look in there for new mail instead.

You can, but it's ugly,  IMHO.
 
Cyrus supports a built in filtering language called sieve, and a daemon
that allows users to upload scripts to the server. There are several
friendly front ends to rule creation, and all filtering is done as the
mail is delivered. Cyrus also provides a single instance store, unlike
UW, and is faster.

As for disconnected reading, decent IMAP clients should support this.
Mozilla is a pretty good client, IMO, though I've not used the
disconnected features myself.

Mike.


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