[Gllug] Email Folders

[Xander D Harkness]

Simon Faulkner wrote:

>Please may I ask a question which may demonstrate a total lack of email
>understanding?
>
>I am used to receiving email in Outlook using POP3 from my linux box which
>runs Postfix (stock RH8)
>The rules wizard does a good job of allocating all the email to their
>correct folders in Outlook.
>
>But, I would like to use IMAP so I can access my mail via Mozilla Mail,
>Outlook and Squirrel Mail as required.
>
>When email comes in via Exim (or Postfix) I would like to use procmail to
>allocate it to different folders but does this then mean that it can't be
>read by POP3 anymore?
>
>What folders does procmail use?  Just standard folders in your ~ directory?
>
The standard Red Hat uses UW as its imap server.  UW keeps the main mail 
spool in /var/spool/mail/$user

The additional 'mail folders' are single mail files held in ~/

This is where procmail should be told to deliver.

I know that exim filter needs to be told to deliver to Maildirs if using 
cyrus, and just a mailbox with uw.

You will probably have to set up two accounts on your Outlook machine, 
the existing pop3 and a new imap accoutn and then copy the Outlook 
filtered messages back onto the server.

Kind regards
Xander

>
>Sorry if this is dull but no one gives the 'big picture'.
>
>TIA
>
>
>Simon
>
>
>  
>


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