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

[Net Llama!]

On Thu, 16 Nov 2006, Roger Oberholtzer wrote:
> 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.

The thing is that I'm not trying to get rid of spam, i'm just trying to 
filter the 98% of the emails that i have no interest in ever reading from 
the 2% that I absolutely must read.  Outside of spam filtering does it 
actually provide functionality for IMAP message body filtering based on 
predefined rules?

I had considered using evolution in the past, but everything that i'd read 
about it says that its bloated, buggy & slow.  Has it been reliable for 
you?

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