Posted by Alex on Thu 15 Sep 2005 at 08:49
Following on from the procmail article, I wondered what solutions people are using for filtering their email at the server level, and for updating the rules?
A little background:
My email server used to be a Windows 2003/Exchange 2003 box (behind a Linux gateway of course) and now it's a hosted Debian Linux box running Postfix/Dovecot/Procmail/Squirrelmail, and constantly keeping my procmail rules updated is a chore, as well as being awkward for my users.
The feature I miss most about the Windows/Exchange combo is that I could set rules in Outlook (or via Webmail) and they would automatically replicate to the server.
The big question is, how do I go about replicating that functionality?
I've looked at web-sieve, but there's no sieve support in dovecot, and the squirrelmail and IMP plugins seem a little clunky.
I currently use Thunderbird as my client and my ideal solution would be a Thunderbird plugin that can upload my rules to the server automatically.
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