[Dovecot] filtering when mail is moved to IMAP Inbox

Scott Silva
Wed, 26 Sep 2007 23:36:41 -0000

on 9/26/2007 4:12 PM Rahul Amaram spake the following:
> Hi,
> I have been looking for a solution to this problem for quite sometime but
> just haven't got any. This is how my current set up is.
>
> I have a IMAP Server installed on my home server. It has various folders. I
> have configured Thunderbird in my laptop to connect to the IMAP Server and
> access mails.
>
> I have also configured Thunderbird to download mails from my GMail account
> using POP3. I have set up a filter in Thunderbird to move all my mails
which
> come to my Local Folders "Inbox" to my IMAP Server's Inbox.
>
> Now here is my question - Is it possible to set up some rules in the IMAP
> Server (maybe sieve) so that I can filter the messages coming to its Inbox
> and move them to another folder?
>
> The whole idea is that I have control over when I want to fetch mails from
> my GMail account but at the same time the filtering rules for moving to
> custom folders should be stored on the server so that i do not replicate
> this in every client.
>
>
> Regards,
> Rahul.
>
>
Might be easier to have fetchmail get the mails from gmail and then you can
process them any way you want. You can write procmail rules, or sieve scripts,
or whatever you want.

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