What do I need to do to filter email on the server

[Cowles, Steve]

Chris Ruprecht wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I would like to implement mail filtering at the server level. My mail
> agent is sendmail in conjuction with procmail/spamassassin and I use
> Dovecot as the IMAP server.
> 
> Currently, I have a client machine (MacOS X) filtering the messages
> out of the inbox into the appropriate slots, but that's a bit silly,
> if I use another machine running evolution, to read mail. It would
> mean, the Mac needs to run all the time to filter messages.
> 
> I'm not advocating MS Exchange here - But that's the kind of
> functionality, I'd like to see with regards to mail filtering. I know,
> Lotus Notes can do that, too - but that's not freeware either and
> there is no native Notes Client for Linux.
> 
> Best regards,
> Chris

As others have pointed out, procmail recipies are the way to go. FWIW: I
found the following site a gold-mine for information on implementing
procmail recipies.

Checkout: http://www.uwasa.fi/~ts/info/proctips.html

Steve Cowles