[Alpine-info] One last question before bed / and Thank ya'll!

[Chris M via Alpine-info]

On Thu, 6 Jun 2024, Bret Busby via Alpine-info wrote:


> To perform an operation at an email hosting facility, I believe that you need 

> to use a webmail facility, for example, if fastmail uses horde or squirrel or 

> something (although, I primarily use Tbird as a webmail application, which 

> lets me work between email hosting folders, and, Tbird local folders. So, I 

> use Tbird to filter out some junkmail, saving it to a junk folder, at my 

> email hosting, so avoiding downloading it, when I use alpine to download my 

> email to my local computer.

>

> The thing with such filtering, if you want to use your email provider's junk 

> storage, is that you need to use (run) whatever webmail application - whether 

> it is one on your local computer, or, one provided by your email provider, 

> each time that you want the filtering performed, as the filters are stored in 

> the particular application.

>

> If you want alpine to filter junk into a junk folder, then, you create the 

> junk folder, on your local computer, using alpine, when you create the 

> filter, and, save the messages to that, using alpine.

>

> I have somewhere around 10-20 junk folders, that I run multiple filters to 

> filter into those folders, and, IO run multiple filters to extract some 

> messages from the junk folders.

>

>



Thats prob what I need to do is set my email up like yours since I can't 
get ALPINE to work with POP3. Set up Thunderbird or the like with a 
Fastmail IMAP password and then have TB pull the emails off of the server 
to TB local folders.

Or use something like EVOLUTION where I can right click on a folder and 
set a retention rule:

If emails in "archive2024" are older than 90 days... Then copy to LOCAL 
FOLDERS"

If "sent-mail" emails are older than 90 days....Then copy to LOCAL 
FOLDERS"

Chris