Re: [gentoo-user] Mail on multiple laptops

[Stroller <stroller@stellar.eclipse.co.uk>]

On 15 Jul 2008, at 16:43, Michael Pobega 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.
>>
>> IMAP++
>
> Can I use procmail with IMAP or is that not possible?

That's perfectly possible, but only if you run your own IMAP server.

I started using IMAP before the advent of Gmail, so this is what I do  
(although I use maildrop rather than procmail). You can use fetchmail  
to get your mail from a POP3 provider and use the "mda" directive  
in .fetchmailrc; alternatively if you have your own FQDN then you set  
up an MX record and have the server listen on port 25 for incoming  
SMTP. The messages are stored in a maildir on your server and then  
your laptop & desktop machines connect to that, seeing the same  
folder view that procmail feeds into.

If you just want to use your single Gmail address and rely on them to  
host IMAP for you then you're probably best off "porting" your  
procmail rules to Gmail's web-based filter setup. When you connect  
via IMAP you'll see whatever folders are set up in Gmail and messages  
will be already filtered into them by those rules.

Stroller.
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