Re: [bug-mailutils] Using GNU Mailutils on a MS Exchange IMAP account

[Christian Schuhegger]

Sergey Poznyakoff wrote:
> > require ["fileinto"];
> > if header :contains "Subject" "Some text" {
> >         fileinto "imap://user:address@hidden/foldername";
> >         discard;
> > }
>
> Could you give some more info, please? What is the type of the input
> mailbox (is it imap:// as well)? How exactly do you invoke sieve? 

The input mailbox is imap and I've put in the .mailutils file the line:
  sieve --mbox-url=imap://user:address@hidden
I invoke sieve by calling:
  sieve ./test.sv

Perhaps this is also a good time to talk about the version of the 
program. I've installed the mailutils package on my debian sarge system. 
The version number is 0.6.1-4sarge1.

> > The strange thing is that uid is ALWAYS for every message which is
> > matched by the condition 0.
>
>
> I'm not sure what you mean by "condition 0". 0 here means the message
> UID number. Actually, 0 is used as a replacement when Mailutils was
> unable to retrieve the uid. 

Sorry, the sentence structure is not a good english one. The 0 belonged 
to "The strange thing is that uid is ALWAYS ... 0".

Do you have an idea why mailutils is unable to retrieve the uid?

> Although it is indeed strange that messages don't have uids, this cannot
> be the reason for them not being deleted.
>
>
> > Did anybody try to do something similar already with the GNU Mailutils
> > with success?
>
>
> Yes, it is how my mailsystem works.

This is already encouraging that your mail system works the same way :)

This means you also do filtering on the client side and not on the 
mailserver via imap? Do you also have an MS Exchange server as the 
mailserver?

Thanks,
--
Christian Schuhegger
http://www.el-chef.de/