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 ====== Imapfilter ======
-One of the greatest benefits of IMAP is the fact that all mails, folders etc. are residing on the server. So it doesn't matter whether you connect with [[Thunderbird]] from your local computer, Evolution on your notebook or on vacation using webmail &ndash; you will always have the same mails and folders.
+One of the greatest benefits of IMAP is the fact that all mails, folders etc. are residing on the server. So it doesn't matter whether you connect with [[apps:thunderbird]] from your local computer, Evolution on your notebook or on vacation using webmail &ndash; you will always have the same mails and folders.
-As soon as your mail setup and volume grows you might want to use filters for e.g. sorting your mail into different folders. And here it becomes obvious what the problem might be: you define Message Filters in [[Thunderbird]] and those work really fine. But on the other systems you must either also define the same rules or keep on sorting manually. The more systems you use the less doable this becomes. But it can already be a big hassle when only using two systems.
+As soon as your mail setup and volume grows you might want to use filters for e.g. sorting your mail into different folders. And here it becomes obvious what the problem might be: you define Message Filters in [[apps:thunderbird]] and those work really fine. But on the other systems you must either also define the same rules or keep on sorting manually. The more systems you use the less doable this becomes. But it can already be a big hassle when only using two systems.
 If you don't have access to a mailserver using [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sieve_%28mail_filtering_language%29|Sieve]], this is where [[http://imapfilter.hellug.gr/|imapfilter]] comes into play. You install imapfilter, define your mail filtering (sorting) rules in a textfile (actually, it's a [[http://www.lua.org/|Lua]] script) and you can transport your rules to every system where they are needed. If you have access to a shell server you can even run imapfilter daemonized on that system, so only one place to define rules and imapfilter handles the rest!