> On Sunday 02 April 2006 19:46, Dan Thurman wrote: >> What I was actually looking for in retrospect, was >> that I wanted to setup rule based filtering so that >> when a message arrives inbound, the rule-based filters >> would route the messages to the proper in-house email >> server and yet intermally to the email server in particular >> to deliver the message to the proper user defined email >> folders using the IMAP structure. > that would be an MTA function IMHO. > i.e. something like postifx/sendmail/exim would re-route mail on receipt > to the relevant internal server (which also need an MTA running on it > and listening for connections) > >> As I have it right now, I have exchange as my main central >> email repository and I have to have at least one of my Outlook >> email clients open (i.e. running) so that when it pop's messages >> (IMAP or POP) from a remote email server, the user-defined rules >> examines the message headers and moves the message(s) to the >> user defined email folders for better management/organization >> of thousands of messages received inbound. >> >> Is there something like this available for Fedora (linux) so that >> I can be weaned away from depending solely on Exchange? >> >> Anyone care to comment? > server-side filtering? > yes. We can do that. > Three things spring to mind immediately > procmail > maildrop (not shipped with RH IIRC - part of the courier MTA) and > sieve (part of cyrus IIRC, not yet compatible with dovecot/postfix. > Unless you want to roll you own from CVS) > all do this kind of thing. But mostly require users to write their own > rules in language that will look very cryptic to beginners. > as for client integration, well that's a whole different kettle of fish. > All three of these use their own filtering 'language' but can be driven > by web-based frontends. > > Having said that, I have had several different mail clients doing > client-side filtering on IMAP folders. I have no idea if Outlook can do > this with a non-exchange server. I would hope so. > Many linux-based clients can. > > > Regards > > Stuart > -- > Stuart Sears RHCA, RHCX > "It's today!" said Piglet. > "My favorite day," said Pooh. > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Sieve works with Cyrus, filtering does well, you can also redirect e-mail to another mail account (was another issue above). Sieve is very strong in filtering mailheaders and it is already built-in in cyrus-imapd Roger
