[Discuss] FOSS email that doesn't suck -- does such a thing exist?

[dsr at randomstring.org (Dan Ritter)]

On Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at 03:36:46AM -0400, Tom Metro wrote:
> Dan Ritter wrote:
> > I use dovecot to serve IMAP/SSL. That's a central
> > storage area, and thus a central place to filter. I can read via
> > K9 on my phone...
> 
> Ditto (Dovecot, Thunderbird, K9, but no mutt)...though I don't have it
> fully implemented. I need to update my Dovecot installation and
> implement server-size filtering. What technique are you using?

The simplest: I observed that people generally spend a long
period of time with the same filtering rules, have small bursts
of changes, and then continue - so I deliver through mailfilter,
procmail or Mail::Audit or whatever my very small set of users 
prefer. They log in to change rules, or ask me to do it for
them.

For a larger user population,
http://fritz.potsdam.edu/projects/email/
describes an architecture I am contemplating adapting.

> > ...instead of JWZ's fast, light, robust code and caches. 
> 
> JWZ? Jamie Zawinski? I don't see any relevant project listed on his
> hacks page: http://www.jwz.org/hacks/
> Links?

JWZ wrote the original version of Netscape Mail to which Rich
refers. You want docs, not hacks.

-dsr-