> -----Original Message----- > From: fedora-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx > [mailto:fedora-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of William Hooper > Sent: Wednesday, April 07, 2004 8:40 PM > To: fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > Subject: Re: MUA Filters vs Procmail filters[was] RE: Mailing list > procmail recipe > > > > Ow Mun Heng said: > > > > After going through this thread. I just need to ask another stupid > > question. What's the major benefit (newb) for one to be using > > procmail to filter emails (besides filtering *.exe *.pif > etc viruses) > > versus that which is offered by MUAs such as Evolution. > > (i'm on evolution) > > > > Both serves the same purpose right? I know IMAP is a better > (from what I > > hear. Pls don't make this an argument) vs Mbox. but mbox > format is better > > for archiving/writing to CDR. > > I'm pretty sure you mean Maildir vs Mbox. IMAP is a protocol, not a > storage format. My Snafu there. :) > > > Since I'm using Mbox format, I might need to re-word the > above recipe to > > put into my > ~/home/evolution/local/subfolders/Linux/subfolders/Fedora > > right? > > > > But I digress. What's the benefit of using procmail vs MUA > filters??? > > As someone else pointed out, it frees you to use multiple > clients with the > same filters. For example you could use Evolution at home, > mutt via SSH > at work, and SquirrelMail via the web at the library. Have them all > pointing to the same IMAP server with procmail filters and you are all > set. Got it.. > > I believe it would also be more efficient when using IMAP because the > mails get moved on the server instead of the client having to > move them, > but it might not be that big of a difference. How about Archiving the emails? How do we do that using Maildir format? (one of the reason I've not moved my laptop's mail format to maildir)
