Re: [Cscmail-devel] Feature request

[Count Z. <cou...@cy...>]

With the C version I am using Mark Crispin's "c-client" for all mailbox
access.  What this allows is support for IMAP, POP, and pretty much all
local mailstore formats known to the Unix world (mbox, mx, mbx, tenex, mtx,
mmdf, unix, mh) ... As such, I believe it solves your problem already.  It
will also support an extensive internal filtering mechanism that will be
powerful enough for 90% of our users needs without a need for something like
procmail.  For users who want to use procmail anyway, I recommend they use
fetchmail to retrieve their mail (NOT cscmail) and then procmail will get a
chance at it during the local sendmail delivery phase (assuming procmail is
setup in the default manner)  Procmail will deliver the mail to whatever
mailbox format you have configured on your system, and then CSCMail will be
able to read that format (in your case, it sounds like mh format)

CSCMail will have the option to have "send only" accounts configured.  These
accounts will have a friendly name, a reply address, and an outgoing server
configuration.  Also, they will have a "sent to alias" (naming may change)
that allows you to map them to incoming messages.  An example will explain
this better:

One problem with using a single mail store to hold messages that where sent
to different drop boxes (cou...@cy..., sk...@ea... for
example) is that when you hit "reply" your "From" address is set to whatever
the default address is.  In a lot of mailers, there is only "one" such
outgoing from address.  In CSCMail 1.7.x and earlier, we allowed multiple
accounts to be configured (removing the need for fetchmail) and when we
downloaded the account, we flagged it so the appropriate reply address would
be selected.  With the new CSCMail, this will continue if users select
multiple POP accounts, but I also understand that a lot of people have
multiple aliases that forward to a single POP box as well.  So the point is,
you'll be able to flag an outgoing account that matches the "To:" address
(or CC: or both) so that when you reply to a message that was sent to
sk...@ea... it will (if you configure it as such) automatically set
the "from" field appropriately.  This makes it easy to make sure that the
reply From address matches the address the mail was sent to.

Anyway, I know this was a bit more than what you where asking, but I got a
lot of ideas floating around in my head and sometimes I hafta dump them..
hehe  I am very excited about the capabilities that the C version of CSCMail
will have... Now I just need 30 more hours a day so I have time to write
it...

-Count Zero

----- Original Message -----
From: "John Summerfield" <su...@os...>
To: <csc...@li...>
Sent: Sunday, April 29, 2001 11:19 PM
Subject: [Cscmail-devel] Feature request


>
> I'm aware that cscmail's being rewritten in C.
>
> I'd like cscmail to use (at least as an option) procmail to filter mail
into its
> folders.
>
> I problem I see with a lot of mailers is that they store mail in files,
lots of
> messages in each. While procmail provides locking for delivery, it's not
usable with
> mailers such as Pine, kmail and so on because these mailers do not know
about
> procmail.
>
> A sound alternative is to allow asynchronous delivery as mh/nmh do; I use
exmh which
> is basically a wrapper for mh/nmh; if the procmail filters specify locking
then safe
> delivery is assured, even when the recipient is using the chosen email
client.
>
> I'd like cscmail's POP accounts (and, I guess IMAP too) to specify that
mail is to
> be piped into procmail (or some other external program) for storage. Once
incoming
> mail has been received and stored, cscmail would then need to check for
new folders.
>
> Ideally, cscmail would also be able to use standard mh folders as created
by
> rcvstore, as many people will already have their mail stored in this way.
>
>
>
>
> --
> Cheers
> John Summerfield
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