[Alpine-info] Filtering

[Steve Litt via Alpine-info]

Lucio Chiappetti via Alpine-info said on Wed, 5 Jun 2024 13:50:39 +0200
(CEST)


>On Tue, 4 Jun 2024, Chris M via Alpine-info wrote:

>

>> I am curious, does Alpine offer filtering rules?

>> Like if message TO is: Alpine List <alpine-info at u.washington.edu>  

>

>Are you the one which said to be new with alpine ?

>

>Yes alpine offers filters, although I think the kind of filter you

>mean will be more efficiently implemented with procmail (whose syntax

>has however a steep learning curve). Also procmail works best as mail

>delivery agent, which implies you receive and store messages locally

>on your machine (which in turn might require fetchmail in conjunction

>with an IMAP server).


I agree. The setup described above is how I do it also:

ISPimap=>fetchmail=>procmail=>local dovecot folder

And then to read it, I just use my email client to read my local Dovecot
IMAP server. Advantages:

1) I'm not reliant on any one email client

2) My filtering rules are independent of the email client

3) Local Dovecot server is rock solid and very fast


SteveT

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