[ale] Mutt / IMAP question

[Ben Coleman]

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Trey Sizemore wrote:

| I've got a question...is it possible to retrieve mail from an IMAP
| server (fetchmail or like) pass to procmail for filtering, then to mutt
| (leaving messages on the server)?  The trick here being if I delete in
| mutt I want to be able to have it deleted off the server.  I like what
| procmail can do, but it seems that I have to use POP3 (and thus download
| my messages locally off the server) instead of IMAP (where I can
| retreive from anywhere) to do this.
|
| Am I wishfully thinking here?

Is the IMAP server (and the MTA that feeds it) under your control?  I
use IMAP, and I use procmail for filtering, but it runs off of the MTA
(Postfix) before mail gets stored for IMAP.

Ben
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