Re: Is imap+procmail possible?

[Vadim Gutnik <gutnik@mtl.mit.edu>]

"Joshua R. Poulson" <jrp@informix.com> writes:

> > Splitting with imap in gnus doesn't seem to be as powerfull as even
> > nnmail-split-fancy, I'd like to split mail as it comes in rather than
> > when I read it, and I don't want to run emacs continuously; so, I'd
> > like to split with procmail. Is there any way to make imap play nice
> > with procmail? Maybe I could add a header, and nnimap would just file
> > the message into whatever group the magic header says to file it in?
> 
> Short answer is "yes". I use procmail with imap. There's nothing special
> about it.


Perhaps I can ask for the longer answer, then. :) Procmail will dump
the results into multiple mailboxes. Wouldn't imap be really unhappy
if extra messages just started to appear in its various folders? How
exactly did you configure things?

	Vadim