MUA Filters vs Procmail filters[was] RE: Mailing list procmail recipe

[Ow Mun Heng]

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> [mailto:fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com]On Behalf Of William Hooper
> Sent: Wednesday, April 07, 2004 8:40 PM
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> 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)