Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Mail on multiple laptops

[Michael Pobega <pobega@gmail.com>]

On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 03:54:21PM +0000, Grant Edwards wrote:
> On 2008-07-15, Michael Pobega <pobega@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 08:00:22AM -0700, Michael Higgins wrote:
> >> On Tue, 15 Jul 2008 10:11:08 -0400 (EDT)
> >> "James" <bjlockie@lockie.ca> wrote:
> >> 
> >> > On Tue, July 15, 2008 9:05 am, Michael Pobega wrote:
> >> > > I've always had just one laptop so I've been a POP user for years
> >> > > now, but I'm finally buying a second laptop for travels (Asus Eee
> >> > > PC) and I was wondering what gentoo-user would recommend as a good
> >> > > way to keep the mail synced on both of my machines.
> >
> > Can I use procmail with IMAP or is that not possible?
> 
> That depends.  My ISP allows me to run my mail through procmail
> on the IMAP server.  Gmail doesn't allow that, so you'd have to
> set up a cron job to read mail from the inbox, run it through
> procmail, and then store it back into folders on the IMAP server.
> 

How would I do that? I have no idea where to even begin...

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