Process your email with procmail

You know, one that does neat things like support all MIME types, and not be finicky about line breaks, and supports POP and IMAP, and doesn't require deep study to create an address book, filters, sigs, multiple profiles and accounts, and all those things that take about five seconds in any other MUA.

tuxchick2,

Well, it does support pop3 and IMAP, and a lot of other stuff, but, you miss the point. This is not a good tool for an individual desktop. That was never it's intended use.

what do you mean, jimf? I'm not quite getting your point. "not a good tool for an individual desktop"?

The article itself is a decent Procmail howto. I just don't care for Mutt and Procmail. The world is full of mail clients that do everything they do, and lots more easily. Mailing lists are overfull of Mutt users complaining about how everyone else needs to set their line breaks differently, and don't use attachments, and the rest of the world uses the wrong mail headers, and quit using weirdo character encodings, and on and on. I used it for a couple years back in the olden days of low-speed dialup, because all the cool geeks did. Then I wised up and found things that worked better. :)

Well, I wouldn't use it for my desktop either. It isn't approipriate. But, our server guy swears by it on his mailservers.