[ale] Need to improve my mail arrangement

[James P. Kinney III]

Use a single app to download the email fromt he pop servers. Fetchmail
and others like it will do the job.

Now run any anti-spam, anti-virus tools and plop the resulting mail
files into an IMAP server. Set all the clients to use IMAP and they will
all see the same folders. If they all have the same filter sets the
clients will filter the email on opening to be put where you want them.
Conversely, learn the arcane rules (for me anyway) that procmail uses
and sort the mail automatically on the server into the correct folders.

If you need to see the email from a remote machine, Squirrelmail is
fantastic! All it needs is apache and PHP and access to the IMAP server.
Plus it has loads of add-on plugins that add some great functionality.
It supports a LAN/WAN wide database addressboook (MySQL/PostgreSQL) and
with a plugin, addressbook groups.

On Mon, 2004-09-06 at 15:33, Jeff Hubbs wrote:
> I'm on Comcast and between my wife and I we use three different e-mail
> addresses.  Right now, we've got Evolution on two Linux machines and my
> laptop.  Evolution on box A gets accounts 1 and 2 but only actually
> offloads messages from account 1.  Box B gets account 3 and offloads
> messages for that account.  The laptop gets accounts 1 and 2 but only
> offloads account 2.
> 
> It's getting to the point where any box in the house - and it would be
> nice if this extended to any kind of mail client (Evolution or Mozilla)
> - needs to be able to see all the stored messages from any of the three
> accounts.  This implies that the messages coming from Comcast need to
> live on some kind of mail server in the house and the various clients
> need to see a common set of folders.
> 
> Keep in mind that the clients (especially on box A and the laptop) sort
> their incoming messages into folders through rules programmed into each
> client.  That separation and separate storage probably needs to take
> place in this mail server.
> 
> So, what does one use in a situation like this?
> 
> - Jeff
> 
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