Re: [Evolution] Moving from Claws-Mail (pop/maildir) to Evo

[Adam Tauno Williams <awilliam opengroupware us>]

On Tue, 2009-10-27 at 01:00 -0500, Chris wrote:
> On Tue, 27 Oct 2009 13:45:52 +0800
> Ng Oon-Ee <ngoonee gmail com> wrote:
> > > For now, Claws and Sunbird will have to do (mind you, both are great
> > > products, I would have liked to use the suite that comes with Evo).
> > I'm unsure why you have the (seemingly artificial) limitation that the
> > app should not use 'other programs'. One of the biggest advantages of
> > linux is the usage of targetted applications for each task, in this
> > case, one application (perhaps fetchmail) handles downloading mail and
> > the other (evolution) handles the reading of that mail. Evolution can
> > access a maildir just fine.
> > Having said that, you know your own requirements. I just wished to
> > point out that the requirement 'without the use of other programs' is
> > artificial and pointless in my opinion.
> I'll admit - I never bothered with procmail (admittedly, seems
> overwhelming to me (alright - there, I said it!))

It seems that way because it is.

Procmail: -1
SIEVE:    +1

Those are my votes.  Actually as a sys-admin it is more like Procmail:
-100.

SIEVE is designed for, and only for, filtering mail.  SIEVE filters are
typically installed on the server via a client & protocol so there is no
need for a user to have a home directory or other filesystem access.
<http://www.fastmail.fm/docs/sieve/>
<http://www.ietf.org/dyn/wg/charter/sieve-charter.html>

There are several web interfaces to manage SIEVE; Ingo being my
far-and-away favorite <http://www.horde.org/ingo/docs/?f=INSTALL.html>
but the Horde suite can be a bit overwhelming so there is also
Smartsieve for a simple stand-alone SIEVE client
<http://smartsieve.sourceforge.net/>.

Very sadly there is no SIEVE support in Evolution
<https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=216959>

> Fetchmail I have used a good bit ago and don't recall much about it.
> While I'm not necessarily afraid to try new things, I could give this a
> try. That being said - some pointers (or a decent example someplace)
> would be appreciated.
> Maybe something like fetch-n-proc might be worth the imagined headache
> (naive point of view here) of setting it up. Perhaps I'll give it a
> shot.

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