Re: procmail again, and Re: [Evolution] Filter and marking requests

[jm jmason org (Justin Mason)]

Jim Duberg said:

> > The only downside I could see would be that my mail filing and
> > notifications would then require that Evo would be running; if Evo or the
> > X server crashed, none of the scripting actions would take place. Hmm...
>
> I agree that the "gui" way of doing filters is easy, but - 
> Doesn't Evolution and other MUAs just do filtering at the client end,
> but procmail can do the filtering on the server, so that if you are
> accessing IMAP mailboxes from two or more different clients, you don't
> have to set up duplicate filters on both clients?

Yeah -- good point.  I guess the next question is, what is the Evolution
design position on this?

Should filters that move messages from inbox to another folder on the IMAP
server be client-side only?  Can an IMAP server do any of the filtering on
the server-side?

Or are we still stuck with procmail? :(

--j.