[mosty OT] trollfilter software

[Tom Horsley]

On Sat, 31 Dec 2011 16:10:40 -0500
Genes MailLists wrote:

>  Tom - Im curious - why are you using fetchmail to pull gmail via pop
> instead of just connecting to it via imap with your mail client?

Because I want all my mail consolidated on my own IMAP server
where I can filter it the way I want it (and have the dovecot sieve
filters work the exact same way no matter which email
client I use), get to it from other machines
on my LAN, etc.

In particular, having the filters work *before* the mail clients
see it seems to make everything much better (I know when I tried
to use evolution, it would notify me I had new mail first, then
apply the client-side filters that deleted or moved the mail,
so I'd go to check my new mail, and there wouldn't be any - yet
another of the 1001 reasons I dropped evolution :-).

I can also switch email clients at will, and all my mail
is still filtered the same on my server.