From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/77994 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eric S Fraga Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: IMAP and IDLE... Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2011 16:00:51 +0000 Message-ID: <87aagse7v0.fsf@ucl.ac.uk> References: <87k4fzxjbp.fsf@lifelogs.com> <87r5a7yvv6.fsf@ucl.ac.uk> <874o70stf5.fsf@ucl.ac.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1300472213 18096 80.91.229.12 (18 Mar 2011 18:16:53 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2011 18:16:53 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M26308@lists.math.uh.edu Fri Mar 18 19:16:49 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from util0.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.18]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Q0eE8-0001aw-GD for ding-account@gmane.org; Fri, 18 Mar 2011 19:16:44 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by util0.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1Q0eCv-0003KI-8C; Fri, 18 Mar 2011 13:15:29 -0500 Original-Received: from mx1.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.32]) by util0.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1Q0eCt-0003K4-SD for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Fri, 18 Mar 2011 13:15:27 -0500 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx1.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1Q0eCr-0001OG-E0 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Fri, 18 Mar 2011 13:15:26 -0500 Original-Received: from vscane-b.ucl.ac.uk ([144.82.108.141]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1Q0eCp-0002gr-8d for ding@gnus.org; Fri, 18 Mar 2011 19:15:23 +0100 Original-Received: from [85.210.136.4] (helo=localhost) by vscane-b.ucl.ac.uk with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES128-SHA:128) (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1Q0eCl-0003NC-Ak for ding@gnus.org; Fri, 18 Mar 2011 18:15:19 +0000 In-Reply-To: (Wes Hardaker's message of "Fri, 18 Mar 2011 07:36:34 -0700") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110016 (No Gnus v0.16) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-Face: av6A"vZ{AypDB`d^.T35oG%$E*Qh]4F)K=*$-NHz5{7WZfAFQFB]F@gf}l9`XLs9(iD?D/! nafKE,S#G!4W/flj=9(U{]t'lP,,5~:s*~;kKR X-UCL-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the UCL Helpdesk, helpdesk@ucl.ac.uk for more information X-UCL-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-UCL-MailScanner-From: e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk X-Spam-Status: No X-Spam-Score: -4.9 (----) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:77994 Archived-At: Wes Hardaker writes: >>>>>> On Fri, 18 Mar 2011 08:51:26 +0000, Eric S Fraga said: > > ESF> Yeah but this assumes that you can do server-side filtering. I cannot > ESF> unfortunately so I'm stuck with the client doing it. Not ideal but, at > ESF> least with gnus, the process is relatively painless. > > Yep. I agree. I'm lucky enough to still be using procmail (which I > still also think needs a rewrite). Have you tried maildrop which, IMO, works significantly better (safer and easier to understand filters) than procmail? I used to use both (procmail for a very long time and then mailfilter for a year or two) until I moved to keeping my emails on an imap server, for better or for worse... -- : Eric S Fraga (GnuPG: 0xC89193D8FFFCF67D) in Emacs 24.0.50.1 + No Gnus v0.16