Procmail can be used to create mail-servers, mailing lists, sort your incoming mail into separate folders/files (real convenient when subscribing to one or more mailing lists or for prioritising your
... [More] mail), preprocess your mail, start any programs upon mail arrival (e.g. to generate different chimes on your workstation for different types of mail) or selectively forward certain incoming mail automatically to someone. [Less]
The Xfce Mailwatch Plugin is a plugin for the Xfce Panel that allows you to monitor several mailboxes for new messages. Various mailbox types are supported, including remote POP3 and IMAP (plaintext
... [More] and SSL/TLS), as well as local mbox, maildir, and mh-maildir mailboxes. GMail account checking is also supported. [Less]
mairix is a program for indexing and searching email messages stored in Maildir, MH or mbox folders.
It is very fast at indexing and searching mails, and creates a virtual folder containing the search results.
Mail Migration is a suite of classes and scripts to move mail between different storage formats (such as mbox, Maildir, etc). It's written in python, and grew out of a simple wrapper around the standard library's mailbox module.
A Python program and set of modules for managing Maildir and mbox email archives. On top of Python 2.5's mailbox module, this project provides:
Frameworks for email classification logic and mailbox
... [More] maintenance actions A built-in collection of well-tested rules and actions that will suffice for many use cases Additional exception handling and runtime consistency tests Simple and extensible YAML configuration Logging of mailbox maintenance actions The target audience for this application is, essentially, me: I wrote this because I wanted an easy way to manage the mbox and Maildir mailboxes on my laptop in conjunction with Procmail and Mutt, so that the old spam can be automatically deleted and the old mailing list messages automatically archived. But this software could just as well find home on an IMAP server, and so I'm hosting it on Google Code in case someone else might find their own use for it in any circumstance. [Less]