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On Feb 21, 2012 7:03 AM, "Grant Edwards" <grant.b.edwards@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> On 2012-02-20, Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwards@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> > I'm looking to set up something that reads messages from one IMAP |
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> > server/mailbox, filters out the spam, and then writes the filtered |
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> > messages into another IMAP server/mailbox. The source and destination |
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> > servers may or may not be the same, and neither is the machine where |
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> > the filter is running. I'd like the solution to use the IMAP IDLE |
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> > command to avoid the latency and load of constantly setting up SSL |
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> > connections and polling the source server. |
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> > It looks like fetchmail -> procmail+spamassassin -> dovecot/deliver |
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> > ought to do what I want. |
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> Or not. It looks dovecot can't deliver to a mailbox on an IMAP server |
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> after all. |
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> > Is there something simpler and easier that I've overlooked? |
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Seems to me "getmail" is more suitable for your needs: |
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http://pyropus.ca/software/getmail/documentation.html#features |
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the feature list says that it can run a filtering software, and delivers |
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emails directly into maildirs. |
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Not sure about IDLE support though. |
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Rgds, |
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