I have Thunderbird set up to toss mails from certain selected mailing lists into a handful of folders inside an IMAP mailbox. (Actually, I have several IMAP mailboxes on my server that I access, but only one or two of them have folders.) I would like to know, though, if there is a way to have the server sort those mails for me, rather than having to have Thunderbird do it.
I set up this server so that I could access my mailboxes from multiple machines around the house, and while I mostly access them from one machine, I do sometimes use different email clients to do it. If I access the main mailbox from a different machine, or from a different mail client -- say, because I want to look real quick for a join-this-website confirm message, and not have to fire up the main mail client -- I of course don't have the filtering going on, and now have to wade through all these mails that normally get moved out of the Inbox and into the other folders. Theoretically, I could transfer the filter presets over to the other mail clients (say, another copy of Thunderbird on an older machine I sometimes use), or convert them to the other programs I use... but that's a nuisance.
Ideally, I'd like to have things set up so that, regardless of what mail client or machine I connect with, the mails have already been transferred to the appropriate folders before I even get there. Is there a way to do that with SME Server?
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