Re: [Evolution] Fwd: Mail in Evolution disappearing - mystery deepens

[dave boland <dboland9 fastmail fm>]

This may be what I do, but for now (and rest of a very busy December),
I'm looking for an easier way.  I guess that may be a monthly combing my
email to see what needs to be saved, then copying it to a folder.  I
admit, I have been fat, dumb and happy for too long, and should have
been doing this all along, but...

Dave,

On Wed, Dec 2, 2015, at 02:36 PM, Reid Thompson wrote:
> On Wed, 2015-12-02 at 14:03 -0500, Paul Smith wrote:
> > On Wed, 2015-12-02 at 13:48 -0500, dave boland wrote:
> > > Thanks for the insight.  There is an IMAP option in Evolution to
> > > synchronize the email, but I have not found much info about this
> > > option.
> > >  Does anyone know what it does and the pros/cons?
> > >  
> > > My objective is to have a local copy (on my computer or email server)
> > > of
> > > all sent and received email, while leaving about 4 months worth on the
> > > isp server for remote use.  periodically, I take the email from the
> > > inbox and sent and place them in subject folders.
> > >  
> > > My question is how do I do that with Evolution, or any email
> > > application?
> >  
> > Different email applications have different facilities so I can't speak
> > to them all.  This isn't a capability supported by the IMAP protocol.
> >  
> > For Evolution, one option is to select all the messages you want to
> > archive and drag them to your "On This Computer" INBOX which should copy
> > them onto your local disk.  Then you can delete those selected files
> > from your IMAP account.
> >  
> > You can make new folders in the "On This Computer" with dates and copy
> > all the email up to that date to that folder, or whatever.
> >  
> > I have not ever tried this, note.  You shouldn't delete email from your
> > server until you've verified it's all present as expected in the local
> > folders.
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> i think you could probably create a filter to copy all incoming email to
> a local maildir email account
> Note though that if an email client other than evo *sees* the email
> first, then when evo downloads it it will not by default process the
> email through filters ( as it is not *new*), you'd have to manually
> force the email to be filtered (highlight and CTRL-Y, etc) 
>
> alternatively
>
> i do this for my fastmail account via fetchmail and procmail
>
> you would want to read up on and understand fetchmail and procmail
> if you wish to attempt it, google has numerous *tutorials* etc...
> i've pulled some pertinent information from my config below.
> the MAILDIR listed below is then configured as an account in evolution
>
>
> $ sudo cat /etc/fetchmailrc 
> # Configuration created Thu Jul 23 09:44:11 2009 by fetchmailconf 1.54
> $Revision: 5165 $
> set postmaster "rthompso"
> set bouncemail
> set no spambounce
> set properties ""
> #set daemon 120
> set daemon 60
> # see /var/log/mail/current
> set syslog
> #set idfile /var/lib/fetchmail/.fetchids ## they are here
>
> ...snip...
>
> poll mail.messagingengine.com with proto IMAP bad-header accept interval
> 2
>        user 'myemailaddr fastmail fm' there with password 'mypassword' is 'rthompso' here options ssl 
> fetchall mda "/usr/bin/procmail -d %T"
>
> ...snip...
>
> ---------end of fetchmailrc cat -----
>
>
>
> NOTE: in the information below
>     MAILDIR=$HOME/.maildir-sent/ is a maildir format folder
> you can use evo to create this folder i think...
> you can probably remove all the spam and bogofilter segments, all you
> really need is to get the email in the maildir folder appropriately
>
>
> $ cat .procmailrc 
> LOGFILE=/tmp/procmailrc.log
> VERSBOSE=no
> MAILDIR=$HOME/.maildir-sent/
> DEFAULT=$MAILDIR
> BOGOFILTER_DIR=/home/rthompso/.bogofilter
>
> ### keep a temporary backup of incoming mail in case bogofilter misplaces
> it
> :0c
> .bogo-backup/
> ###
>
> # We'll scan the mail with clam using the standard input, and saving the
> result on the AV_REPORT variable
> AV_REPORT=`clamdscan --stdout --no-summary - |sed 's/^stream: //'`
>
> # We check if the word FOUND was in the result and save "Yes" or "No"
> according to that
> VIRUS=`echo $AV_REPORT|sed '/FOUND/ { s/.*/Yes/; q  };  /FOUND/ 
> !s/.*/No/'`
>
> # formail is a filter that can alter a mail message, while keeping the
> correct format. We use it here to add/alter a header called 
> # X-Virus with either value Yes or No
> :0fw
> | formail -i "X-Virus: $VIRUS"
>
> # And if we just added "X-Virus: Yes", we will also add another header
> with the scan result, and alter the subject, again, with the scan result.
> # Since we are using the f flag, the mail is going to be delivered
> anyway.
> :0fw
> * ^X-Virus: Yes
> | formail -i "X-Virus-Report: $AV_REPORT" -i "Subject: [Virus]
> $AV_REPORT"
>
>
> ## Silently drop all completely unreadable mail
> :0:
> * 1^0
> ^\/Subject:.*=\?(.*big5|iso-2022-jp|ISO-2022-KR|euc-kr|gb2312|ks_c_5601-1987|windows-1251|windows-1256)\?
> * 1^0
> ^\/Content-Type:.*charset="(.*big5|iso-2022-jp|ISO-2022-KR|euc-kr|gb2312|ks_c_5601-1987|windows-1251|windows-1256)
> .spam-unreadable/
> ####
>
> #### bogofilter passthrough-update ####
>
> :0fw
> | /usr/bin/bogofilter -uep
>
> #| bogofilter -p -u -l -e -v
> # -p)assthrough -u)pdate, -l)og -e)xitcode 0 for spam and ham
> # -v)erbose
>
> #### begin error catcher ####
>
> # m-a 2002-10-28
> #     If bogofilter failed, return the mail to the queue.
> #     Better put this after _EACH_ delivering recipe (not shown here).
> #     Later, the MTA will try again to deliver it.
> #     75 is the value for EX_TEMPFAIL in /usr/include/sysexits.h
> #
> #     Originally published by Philip Guenther on the postfix-users
> #     mailing list.
>
> :0e
> {
>     EXITCODE=75
>     HOST
> }
>
> #### end error catcher ####
>
>
> :0:
> * ^X-Bogosity: (Spam|Yes)
> .spam-bogofilter/
> # put copy error catcher here to avoid fallthrough
>
> # unnecessary in twostate mode:
> :0:
> * ^X-Bogosity: Unsure
> .unsure-bogofilter/
> # put another copy of error catcher here to avoid fallthrough
>
> #### end bogofilter passthrough-update ####
>
> # myemailaddr fastmail fm to appropriate folder
> :0
> * ^To: *myemailaddr\ fastmail\ fm
>  myemailaddr fastmail^fm/
>
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