I’m looking for a utility to scan an IMAP account and auto-forward any messages from person A to a another account. Of course, if Mozilla supported auto-forward, I wouldn’t have to seek this functionality elsewhere ;).
As a halfway measure, I think I could set a filter in Mozilla to copy messages from person A to an intermediary IMAP mailbox, but that doesn’t do me much good since the destination account is POP3.
Even if there were some utility that could foward e-mail from an IMAP account but could only forward the entire account, then I might still be able to make use of that in concert with Mozilla copying messages to that intermediary IMAP account.
And, yeah, I suppose this would be easy with Linux. Stop snickering ;).
It should be fairly straightforward to build a simple Perl script to do this using Mail::IMAPClient (to retrieve the messages) and Net::SMTP (to forward them to the destination). You can use the IMAP SEARCH command to filter the messages as per your requirements) (it’s mapped into the IMAPClient’s API).
Hi Alex,
Did you ever get this to work? I’ve tried to do this with Thunderbird but never got it to forward for me (using a filter).
Cheers,
Finbarr