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

[William Hooper]

Joe(theWordy)Philbrook said:
>> 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.
>
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>
> Do I understand you to say I can run procmail from my local machine to
> filter mail that is still in isp provided mailbox???  [even a pop3 box?]

While it may be possible (I don't think it is) the comparison I was making
was that running procmail on the IMAP server might be more efficient than
filtering via the MUA.  Filtering in the MUA would require reading the
mail then moving it (both over the network) where procmail would do all
the filtering on the server as mail is received.

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William Hooper