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Re: [LUG] Email clients

 

On 26/04/2020 23:17, Michael Everitt wrote:
> On 26/04/20 21:08, Julian Hall wrote:
>> On 26/04/2020 17:30, RODRIGUEZ, Dom via list wrote:
>>> Hi Dan,
>>>
>>> On this date - Sun, Apr 26, 2020 at 03:29:13PM +0100, Dan Smith wrote:
>>>> Hi all,
>>>>
>>>> Hope everyone is keeping well.
>>>>
>>>> Anyone know of any good email clients that are cross platform that
>>>> allow you to apply mail rules, recently switched my email hosting who
>>>> use round cube but if I want to set mail rules I have to pay an
>>>> additional £15 a year for shell access.
>>>>
>>>> Open to options...
>>> Main things I can think of are `procmail` or `imapfilter`. imapfilter
>>> is configured in Lua, and before I went and hosted my own email, I
>>> used it to sort my email hosting on Gandi..
>>>
>>> -- 
>>> Kind regards,
>>> Dom Rodriguez (shymega)
>>
>> I use Thunderbird.. Native versions for Linux/Windows/Mac. If by rules
>> you mean filters that will also do it for you.
>>
>> Kind regards,
>>
>> Julian
>>
> +1 from me on Thunderbird .. been using on Windows and Linux for many years
> now, and apart from the occasional crash (usually caused by PEBKAC and
> inconsistencies elsewhere) it's been solid for about 5 email accounts on a
> variety of servers, inc SSL.
> 
> Filtering is pretty good, albeit not flawless .. if you want to go
> hardcore, others have mentioned imapfilter and procmail, but the basics are
> well-covered in Tbird.
> 
> Best,
> Michael/veremitz.
> 
> 

Thunderbird is used by me  for many years.
Filters set by incoming email address of which there are many, some
general e.g.   "xxxx at gmail.com"   "yyyy at  ISP.com", some on own domain.
All have spamassasin as first filter.

-- 
regards
Eion MacDonald

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