[imapfilter-devel] Re: Not filtering

[Chris de Vidal]

--- Lefteris Chatzibarbas <lefcha at hellug.gr> wrote:
> The admin of the mail server should
> configure the server properly and IMHO "performance reasons" is not a
> good excuse...

Well, I don't exactly know his reasons, he didn't talk back to me.  I only
suspect those are his reasons, or perhaps Lotus Notes (the bastard child of
mail servers) doesn't support it.

> > Or could you please provide an alternate way of sorting for non-indexed
> servers?
> 
> I am thinking of adding the capability to use regular expressions to the
> filters of imapfilter (not for the next major release though), but this
> has the drawback that then some part of the messages have to be fetched
> in order to do the matching (because IMAP mail servers don't have the
> capability to do searching queries using RE).  OTOH, this will solve
> problems like this, make filtering more powerful, and will also make it
> easy to implement things like the "delete duplicates" functionality...

How about a config file option and it's off by default?  Just a thought...

Anyway thanks for such a stellar piece of software, too bad I have no use for
it.  Anyway I'll share it with people in my Linux User Group.

Thanks!


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