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On Mon, 21 Mar 2016, barnaby@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
I have my own web site which I use, among other things, for my emails.. This is fine, I use both Thunderbird and Claws email clients on my laptop computer.. I think it could be useful to use a web mail front end sometimes, so I have been looking at programs such as Rainpool, Roundcube, Horde etc. However one facility which I find very useful in both TB and Claws is filtering emails to place them in a particular folder. I find it a great help. I have not found that facility on any web mail program so far, but it could just be me missing the obvious. Can anyone help with this please? And no, I will not fo near Gmail, Yahoomail etc. I am just talking about a front end for my own emails on my own website.
The issue with doing it at the client side (ie. in thunderbird, claws, alpine, roundcube, squirrelmail, etc.) is that the filters only run when you run that client. So you need to replicate the filters over all clients, (potentially worse as they could then run multiple times), or think of a plan B.
The best plan B is to use procmail on the mail host. Use that to filter into folders then any IMAP client will see new emails in the folders and act accordingly.
e.g. my .procmail rcentry for this list is: :0: * ^Subject:.*\[LUG\] lug which filters all LUG messages into a 'lug' folder. maybe wrong as I probably ought to be using List-ID: header, however... Simples. Gordon -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq