[imapfilter-devel] Re: Not filtering

[Frank Schroeder]

Mail servers can be at a remote site or next door - as in our case. We 
are using the Netscape Messaging Server which doesn't offer server side 
filtering but the amount of mails that we need to process requires 
filtering. Letting Mozilla do the work is not a solution as I would like 
to set something up which works like server-side filtering, i.e. with a 
client in the background.

So fetching headers - or even the bodies - would be OK if it can be 
configured.

Lefteris Chatzibarbas wrote:

>On Thu, Jun 12, 2003 at 04:56:01AM -0700, Chris de Vidal wrote:
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>>--- Lefteris Chatzibarbas <lefcha at hellug.gr> wrote:
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>>There must be another way to sort IMAP mail if Mozilla can do it.
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>If the server can not handle SEARCH queries from clients, that means the
>mozilla mail client fetches some or all of the headers of the messages
>and checks them locally (or maybe configured to fetch the messages and
>also keep them on the server).  This is much more slower if you tend
>keep a lot of messages in your remote IMAP mailboxes and don't have
>broadband connection.
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  Frank Schroeder  <frank at webraska.com>
Senior Software Engineer/IS Architect/DBA
    Webraska Engineering Germany
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