> Flaherty, Patrick wrote: >>> I have a big e-mail box over at my provider. I receive a lot >>> of e-mail every day (over 100), which are distributed into >>> different imap-folders by thunderbird. The problem is that >>> thunderbird must be running >>> (offcourse) to be able to it's job. >>> And for thunderbird to run, my (home)computer must be running. >> >> I used to use maildrop on the IMAP server I administered. It worked well >> and syntax was easy to follow, but since it involves changing the local >> mail delivery agent at your provider might not be an option. >> >> http://www.courier-mta.org/maildrop/ > > Gmail recently added imap. You might try an account there to see if > their filtering/folders work the way you like. I'm still using pop with > fetchmail to pull the mail to an imap server that I control so I haven't > really worked with this myself yet but I'll switch to direct imap if it > works well. You can always forward your other account(s) there. > > -- > Les Mikesell > lesmikesell at gmail.com Thank you all for your input. Searching Google on "imapfilter" gave me besides the imapfilter program on the Greek site(imapfilter.hellug.gr/) a set of perl scripts that somebody created (http://www.athensfbc.com/imap_tools/). I'll see if I can get these to work before I'll dive into setting up my own "imap-proxy" type setup to filter.