[Foss-cafe] mail filtering setup protocol

[Pupeno]

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Hi people, I'm trying to migrate from pop3 to imap because I think imap is 
more sane and because I could use a webmail to access the same mail (anywhere 
in the world) that I access with my beloved kmail (imap weirdness apart).
But my problems are filters, I have a ton of filters that filters mail to 
their folders and without that, the big amount of mails I receive, even with 
imap, it would be very unsefull for a web-mail.
With pop3, a serialized mail downloading protocol, it made sense to filter 
mails as I download them, but with imap, it doesn't make sense (they wouldn't 
end up being filtered in the web-mail). So, another solution is needed... I 
was told to use maildrop (or procmail). Ok, it can do the task, but it is 
about 1000 times harder than the user friendly KMail filter setup, with some 
effort I can do it, I know a lot of people that wouldn't be able to do it. 
For those of use, imap ends up being useless.
So I was thinking that imap should provide some kind of mail filtering setup. 
That is a way that a client (like kmail, with a nice ui, or a web-mail) may 
instruct the server about what filters to apply to the incoming mail. What do 
you think ? I was told 'hell no', imap is not for filtering, ok... then 
another protocol, a separate protocol, another port, another server ? don't 
you think it'll be usefull ? Is there something like that implemented ? 
another solution ?
Thanks.
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Pupeno: pupeno at pupeno.com - http://www.pupeno.com
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