Re: Place messages in a specified folder after arrival

[Magnus Bäck <magnus@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Friday, October 01, 2004 at 22:13 CEST,
     Håkon Strandenes <haakon.strandenes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I'm using Postfix to receive mail (from a maildrop from a POP3 server)
> on my personal server. I put the mails in a IMAP folder and access the
> mails from several computers, with Outlook Express/2000/2003,
> Evolution and Squirrelmail (webmail).
> 
> I'm wondering if it's possible to specify that messages with (for
> example) [sailwave] in the subject, should be put in a different
> folder than INBOX in the IMAP store.

The Postfix local delivery agent does not support such things, but there
are other delivery agents that do (e.g. procmail and maildrop).

> This is because I have subscribed to many newsletters/mailing list,
> and want the mails from the "sailwave" list (marked with [sailwave] in
> the subject), in the mail/Sailwave folder.
> 
> This will reduce the need for manula sorting, and most important of
> all, reduse the bandwidth use when downloading new mails to my mobile
> phone.
> 
> I use 'xinetd' as IMAP/POP access server.

No you're not. xinetd may indeed listening for your IMAP/POP
connections, but one a client connects it will spawn some other
piece of software.

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Magnus Bäck
magnus@xxxxxxxxxxx