Until two weeks ago I was using an IMAP server (based on Zimbra) for my work email, but the date for migration to Gmail arrived with no choice to postpone… I was very tied to using my current setup, where: offlineimap was downloading all the email to a local maildir folder, imapfilter classified the email into folders based on local options mutt accessed the maildir folder for working with the emails a script to remove duplicate emails from disk imapdedup....
Since some time ago, email filter management was not scaling for me as I was using server-side filtering, I had to deal with the web-based interface which was missing some elements like drag&drop reordering of rules, cloning, etc. As I was already using offlineimap to sync from the remote mail server to my system into a maildir folder, I had almost all the elements I needed. After searching for several options imapfilter seemed to be a perfect fit, so I started with a small set of rules and start integration with my email process....