I synchronize my imap folders to maildir on my local laptop often so I can both have access to my email without a network and utilize my preferred search and email clients. In order to facilitate how I use email I keep a local archive which created and filtered by procmail.
Here is an approximation of my crontab (cron doesn't start a shell, so I put most of the commands in a script):
Here is the
and here are the relevant portions of my
Here is an approximation of my crontab (cron doesn't start a shell, so I put most of the commands in a script):
% crontab -l HOME=/home/myhome MAIL=$HOME/maildir PROCMAILD=$HOME/.procmail.d 0-59/5 9-18 * * * $HOME/bin/syncemail
Here is the
syncemail
script:
#!/bin/sh offlineimap 2>&1 | logger -t offlineimap for i in `find $MAIL/Disney -type f -newer $PROCMAILD/log `; do cat "$i" | procmail done [
and here are the relevant portions of my
.procmailrc
:
PMDIR=$HOME/.procmail.d VERBOSE=off MAILDIR=$HOME/maildir DEFAULT=$MAILDIR/mbox LOGFILE=$PMDIR/log LOGABSTRACT=all ARCHIVEBY=`date +%Y-%m` ARCHIVE=$MAILDIR/archives/$ARCHIVEBY MKARCHIVE=`test -d ${ARCHIVE} || mkdir -p ${ARCHIVE}` # Prevent duplicates :0Wh: $PMDIR/msgid.lock | /usr/bin/formail -D 100000 $PMDIR/msgid.cache :0c ${ARCHIVE}/
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