7/14 I read email using mutt over IMAP. I want to set up something
(fetchmail?) that will periodically download email, scan for
important emails (e.g. sender is Joe) and email them to my
cell phone email addr. But that's it. I don't want fetchmail
to deliver emails or in any way modify my IMAP spool. How do
I do this?
\_ Copy your mailspool on the mailhost, then have fetchmail download
it occasionally. Then do with it what you need to (filter,
forward, whatever.) -John
\_ If filtering with procmail is allowed on that server, I'd take
that route. Otherwide, I see no easy way of doing it (in case
if marking messages as "read" on the server without deleting them
qualifies as mail spool modification)
\_ If you can forward mail from the IMAP account, perhaps you
have access to a unix machine that you can run procmail on.
Actually, there's even procmail for cygwin.
\_ I tried this with my email-pager. Just to forward *portions* of
important emails (from specific folks). Ooops, underestimated the
amount of email I get and they charged me $3100 one month
(10 cents per character after my monthly limit).
\_ You didn't actually pay that bill did you? When a previous
company started sending out email pages to system staff we
racked up a $34k bill one bad month. The VP told them to go
fuck themselves. We changed pager companies, end of story. |
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