[TAG] IMAP4 vs POP3

[Ramon van Alteren]

On 22 Nov , 2005, at 10:39 AM, Martin J Hooper wrote:

> Mike Orr wrote:
>> On 11/21/05, Martin J Hooper <martinjh at blueyonder.co.uk>
>>> Thanks Mike - Another quick question..  Can you filter messages  
>>> on IMAP?
>> A client program can log in periodically and apply a filtering
>> algorithm.  I don't see how you can have the server automatically do
>> it.
>
> Thanks Mike - Not a programmer so writing programs that do  
> filtering is out... ;)
>
> I was wondering if you could set up Thunderbird to filter messages  
> from Inbox to various others like you can with POP3 filters.
>
> For POP3 filtering its just a matter of defining what to look for  
> and where it is in a message and then moving it to the relevant  
> folder.
>
> Hopefully it works the same way in Thunderbird for IMAP as well and  
> as easy as POP3...

I can confirm that for you.
It works just as easy with Thunderbird for IMAP as it does for POP.

I use it myself on mailaccounts where I don't have shell-access.

On my own server I use a mixture of procmail and client-side  
filtering, with spamassasin and clam-av thrown in for windows-based  
users. (the clam-av that is)

If you were thinking of trying KMail, be careful, the current caching- 
IMAP implementation has a nasty sync bug that will delete mail on  
both client-side and server-side in some conditions !!

Burned me twice before I switched mail-clients. Yes I keep backups of  
my mail, NO I don't enjoy putting them back :-(

Ramon
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