Dovecot filtering

Dovecot seems nice. It’s simple to setup, it’s secure, and it’ll run on any old POS computer, but server side filtering setup is poorly documented. If I only accessed email from a single computer, or all email I receive is of equal priority then it wouldn’t be a problem. I do not need to see mailing list traffic when I’m on the road, so it should be automatically be transferred out of my inbox into a folder that I can check less frequently.

This is easy as pie to set up in any desktop email client, but I check my email on the move with my Nokia e61, on my laptop when I get a chance to sit down, Outlook, Thunderbird, Outlook Express or Evolution when at one of my work desktops, and webmail everywhere else! Therefore I need the emails to be sorted on the server, before they get downloaded to an email client.

Sieve seems to be the tool of choice, but you have to compile it from source on Debian, which defeats the point. People use Debian because of it’s package management. I log into each of my servers each week and run “apt-get update;apt-get upgrade” and I know everything gets brought up to date. Having to manually track a specific application’s release cycle and bugs just makes things messy.

The search continues….