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email processing

USC (because they don’t want to go to too much trouble when they’re subpoena’d, i guess) is deleting all 6-month-or-older mail as of Sept 2. I need to find some other solution for syncing my mail both on home and work machines.

  • gmail is providing good caching, though it would be nice if i could automate tagging of mass, personal, etc. (why can’t i define lists of people, and say “anyone from this group, label that tag as “personal” or “family” or “isi” ?)
  • my friend leonard has a nice setup with getmail, crm114, Maildir, procmail, mysql, running on a machine at work. he has automatic statistic generation (at http://webster.usc.edu/~lhl/mail/ and the procmail locs at http://webster.usc.edu/~lhl/mail/0628), and uses squirrelmail as a webmail frontend. That guy is on top of things…

So here’s what i need

  • local mailserver (?)
  • webmail interface (squirrelmail?)
  • maildir/mbox local files to process on
  • popfile or crm114 as preprocessing for delivered mail (spam, and general sorting)
  • procmail (learn how to use it…)

Maybe i’ll bring a small computer to ISI to act as a webserver for personal hacking & projects. It’s a pain, with my current webserver only available when fairuz is booted into windows. And i want to transition more into linux…