[BUGS] Request for comment on email sorting

[Callum Gibson]

On 03Feb08 17:24, Jerahmy Pocott wrote:
}> So you configure their mail program to have local store folders on the
}> network drive and they drag stuff in there (and outgoing could be
}> automatic if set up properly). Everything lands on the samba share on the
}> server and is backed up from there. (Configuration is obviously dependent
}> upon the user's chosen MUA.)
}
}That's an interesting idea.. The only problem though, is getting  
}procmail to work with that set up.. Unless there is some way to  
}convert/read pst format files?

Maybe I missed something in your original mail, but I'm not sure what you
want procmail for.

}Does anyone know, when you copy mail from a client to an imap folder,  
}what process that involves? E.g. can procmail be configured to filter  
}messages when they are copied? Or would I need to have some sort of  
}cron job running procmail against their maildir?

Procmail requires mail to be delivered to a unix mailbox, so I don't know
how it will fit into the context of your many different users all with
different mail technologies and accounts. Unless you really want to force
them all to use the same thing, and/or are prepared to configure and maintain
their fetchmail (or similar) settings for them, then I don't know how you
will achieve that. Your original mail gave me the impression this was a
disparate set of mail users which you were trying to provide mail backup
services to, rather than move onto a standard corporate mail system, but
that could be my misunderstanding.

    C

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