anyone know of a mail client that can filter on IMAP msg body?

[Roger Oberholtzer]

On Thu, 2006-11-16 at 13:00 -0500, Net Llama! wrote:
> I'm getting drowned at work with nearly 5000 (yes, 5000) new emails each 
> day.  Its reached the point of being ridiculous, and I need to find an 
> email client that can reliably filter based on the content of the body of 
> the messages (rather than just the headers).  The added twist is that this 
> needs to work for an IMAP server (rather than POP).  Thunderbird claims to 
> be able to do this, yet it flat out doesn't work (and others have reported 
> similar problems).
> 
> Is anyone actually getting this to work (rather than theoretically 
> thinking it might work) with any mail client?

I use evolution, which runs a spam filter. I think the specific one to
use is set in gnome's config. I don't use gnome, but this was rather
painless to set up IIRC. The gottcha is that it only does this when it
is running. It has a 'learn' and 'unlearn' feature. The machine I had
this running on did pretty good. Far better than getting them all. It
produced only false negatives, which wasn't too bad.

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Roger Oberholtzer