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[Julian Field]

Alex Neuman wrote:
> Ken A wrote:
>> Filtering on 'To or cc' in Thunderbird works good. It manages 100+ 
>> folders, and a few hundred thousand messages, 20 lists or so, sorted 
>> into various archive folders by year, about 100 message filter rules, 
>> plus a few dozen rss feeds and a couple newsgroups.
>>
>> I still use Pine too, for remote access when I'm on a slow link, 
>> since the server here is pop3, it saves me having to download tons of 
>> mail from a remote location or use some webmail client. I've never 
>> spent much time trying to get Pine to really handle my mail though.
>>
> It does, but since I switched to only using IMAP and using procmail 
> for filtering by headers (not subject), I've managed to use webmail, 
> pine, thunderbird or any e-mail client without having to worry about 
> importing or exporting filter rules.
I use a Cyrus IMAP server, and use some very long Sieve scripts to do 
all the filtering, so I don't have to bother with email client filters 
and their restrictions. I have a lot of filters so using client-side 
filters before Cyrus meant that switching email client was quite a job 
as I had to re-create all the filters :-(

Cyrus rocks!
I have had it installed for 1,000 very heavy users (all our staff and 
postgrads in our dept) since last summer. I have had to do 1 restart on 
it, and that was actually caused by amd (automounter) and not Cyrus 
anyway. Other than that, absolutely no maintenance needed whatsoever. 
Oh, and did I say how fast it is. Upgraded from UW-IMAP and the 
difference is enormous!
Shame I can't say the same for our SexChange server which only handles 
100 users yet needs far more maintenance time and effort.

There are currently 3 software packages that impress me:
1) Cyrus IMAPd (Unices)
2) Roboform Pro (PC)
3) ChronoSync (Mac)

Check them out, they are all very good at their jobs and have a lot of 
thought and time invested in them.

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