From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: sean.escriva@gmail.com (Sean Escriva) Date: Tue, 8 Sep 2009 14:50:23 -0700 Subject: [sup-talk] a few questions on mail handling with sup In-Reply-To: <1252098027-sup-4487@ntdws12.chass.utoronto.ca> References: <20090904191332.GA5525@gmail.com> <1252098027-sup-4487@ntdws12.chass.utoronto.ca> Message-ID: <20090908215023.GA7134@gmail.com> Excerpts from Ben Walton's message of Fri Sep 04 05:01:11 -0400 2009: > Excerpts from Sean Escriva's message of Fri Sep 04 15:13:32 -0400 2009: > > > Currently I have no way to way move messages out of my inbox on the > > imap server, since I'm accessing a local maildir created by > > offlineimap. This is only an issue since mailboxes have a limit of > > 800mb in size on the server and given the volume of mail I have that > > will be reached every other month. I've looked at imap filter and this > > could possibly work, but anyone have experience with this sort of > > sitatuation? > > Could you pull it down with fetchmail into a local MTA setup that only > handles local delivery? Fetchmail has the 'delete on server' option > if offlineimap doesn't. thanks for the reply. fetchmail/procmail is a better option in this case than offlineimap. No need to setup a whole different MTA since I am already using msmtp for sending... thanks again. -sme