Re: [sup-talk] Help me getting started.

From: Mark Alexander <marka@pobox.com>
To: Jonas H. <jonas@lophus.org>
Cc: sup-talk <sup-talk@rubyforge.org>
Subject: Re: [sup-talk] Help me getting started.
Date: Mon, 20 Dec 2010 08:41:36 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1292851798-sup-1112@bloovis.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4D0E8DDD.20505@lophus.org>

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Excerpts from Jonas H.'s message of Sun Dec 19 17:57:33 -0500 2010:
> 4. For incoming mails, I used to use POP3, and I want keep storing my 
> mail locally (only). Which MDA solution is the best as far as 
> performance is concerned? My netbook has very poor CPU and HDD 
> performance (loooong HDD wakeup times), so that's what matters most in 
> this regard.

Fetchmail would be a good choice, and you can use it with procmail or
maildrop to deliver the mail to your local maildir(s).  The
configuration language for maildrop is somewhat easier to learn than
procmail's.

I once tried using offlineimap, but had to stop because our Exchange
mail server at work would occasionally cause mails to be deleted and
that would mess up sup.  (I think was a "feature" of Exchange or Outlook
that allowed people to recall messages after they'd been sent.  I am
not sure, though; I don't use Windows.)

In case this would be useful, I've attached sanitized examples of my
fetchmail and maildrop config files.  I've got them set up to use two
different incoming mail accounts, one for personal mail (gmail) and
one for work mail (a bogus company, widgets.com), with separate
maildirs for each.

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#File : .fetchmailrc
set postmaster "myusername"

poll pop.gmail.com with proto POP3 and options no dns
  user 'gmailuser@gmail.com' there with password 'gmailpasswd' is 'myusername' here options ssl keep
  mda "/usr/bin/maildrop"

poll imap.widgets.com protocol imap user widgetuser@widgets.com pass widgetpasswd fetchall
  mda "/usr/bin/maildrop /home/myusername/.mailfilter.widgets"

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DEFAULT="$HOME/Maildir/inbox"
FRIEND="$HOME/Maildir/friend"
WOTD="$HOME/Maildir/wotd"

logfile "$HOME/Maildir/maildrop.log"

if (/^From:.*friend@example\.com/)
{
  to $FRIEND
}

if (/^From:.*word@m-w\.com/)
{
  to $WOTD
}

to $DEFAULT

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DEFAULT="$HOME/widgets/Maildir"

logfile "$HOME/widgets/Maildir/maildrop.log"

to $DEFAULT

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