sorting mail over imap?

[Amos Shapira]

Yes I'm very much into Perl programming and already printed the docs
of this module and read them on the way home (found it via some IBM
article).

Cheers,
--Amos
(not connected through either NV or Bezeq :)

On 2/13/09, Noam Rathaus <noamr at beyondsecurity.com> wrote:
> Amos,
>
> Are you into programing?
>
> If so, IMAP::Client for perl works pretty well (though there are occasional
> bugs :) ).
>
> I can give you a perl script I use for handling incoming requests from users
> (via email) and places them into a database.
>
> You can probably modify it to do whatever you want.
>
> On Friday 13 February 2009 05:08:53 Amos Shapira wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I'm looking at a way to filter e-mails on our Exchange 2003 server
>> using a linux box as an IMAP client.
>>
>> I have it now working on my Ubuntu desktop using Claws mail but it
>> means I have to keep it running while I'm away which is wasteful (I
>> shut down my desktop overnight and weekends).
>>
>> Looking around for solutions I learned:
>> 1. My memory about procmail not being suitable is still correct -
>> Procmail can only store to local files.
>> 2. The closest I found was
>> http://markmail.org/message/esxmz6bsejt6bt6y, which mentions Sickle
>> http://www.codebunny.org/coding/sickle/ which is almost 4 years old
>> and depends on perl modules I can't find in CPAN.
>>
>> But Sickle's idea (using Perl IMAP modules to filter messages) seems
>> to be right.
>>
>> What I envision is to run a script on one of our main operations
>> servers which are always on, which reads message headers over IMAP
>> from the Exchange server, filters them and moves them to other IMAP
>> folders. Just like Claws does for me already but without the need for
>> a GUI/display etc.
>>
>> Is there something more "baked" or should I work from scratch?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> --Amos
>>
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