A preface to Gurgitate-Mail on Dreamhost
When I got my iPhone, I decided to go back to using my Dreamhost account through IMAP so that I could have a single account with a persistent state. While this is nice, I didn't want to have to wade through a ton of spam on my iPhone. Since I wasn't neccesarily have Mail.app or Thunderbird open all the time at home running mail filters, and you can't do that on the iPhone, I was in a bind. How do I filter my mail easily and still use IMAP across multiple devices?
I came across Gurgitate-Mail, a great little filter which is launched by procmail or whatever you use to receive email. You can write some pretty concise email rules or make it even more complex. The point is that you can write rules in a proper programming language instead of cobbling together something in your favorite Mail program. In the coming days I will be posting more about what I've done.
