Hello,

at my university I get a good IMAP account which I'd like to use, as I'm guessing that it availability will be higher than my vserver's. Anyhow, one thing that bugs me is that I have no way of setting up filters (for putting mails from a mailing list into separate folders etc.) As I connect from various different places to that mailbox, I do not want to set up filters every time I connect from a different client.
So my idea was to have a IMAP client listening for incoming messages and putting it in the appropriate folders. It would run on my vserver. But I haven't really found anything about a solution similar to this one, so maybe you can assist me in finding the right software?
Filtering would be it's sole purpose, so I'd like it to be low-footprint and CLI-based.

Thank you very much! And please excuse my English, it's gotten a bit rusty.

well the imap client is what runs on your local machine, and doesn't deliver mail anywhere, just pulls it. check out procmail, that's what i use to presort email on my remotely hosted mail server, then just use standard imap to get to it all.

I think we're misunderstanding each other. Okay, when I said IMAP client, I was thinking something along the lines of Mozilla Thunderbird, which isn't totally correct.
The thing is that I merely have IMAP access to the account I'd like to use for my email. So what I want to do is have an email client permanently connected to that account (just like keeping Thunderbird with filters set up always running on my machine), so it does all the filtering for me. That would enable me to have an already pre-sorted mailbox once I connect with a 'real' mail program without filters set up. Do you understand what I'm trying to do?

erm yeah think i'm with you, so doesn't thunderbird fill this need then?

well how about this... should have assumed something with this name would exist... http://imapfilter.hellug.gr/

@acid_kewpie: Well, installing Thunderbird would've meant installing an X Server and all. That would be a little over the top, imho.

But wow, thank's for the link. It's exactly what I want!
I really need to improve my google skills.

Just to let you know, I just set up imapfilter as a daemon and it works wonderfully. Thanks again for the help!

no problem.