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Re: [LUG] Simple serverside mail filtering...

 

Grant Sewell wrote:
> Ideally I would like to be able to filter the messages into their
> respective folders at stage 3.5).  I've had a look at procmail, but it
> looks like a bit of overkill for my needs.  Getmail seems to have
> filtering capabilities, but I can't seem to get it to work.

procmail is *the* application for this.

Okay, it's not that friendly to start with, and fiddling with hidden 
text files is not an ideal solution, but it is incredibly flexible and 
reliable.

There are some alternative front ends to it - like webmin (I know webmin 
is unfashionable but I have no idea why) which you might like to look at.


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