samr33

Thanks for the reply Bruce! Good to be part of TCH. Seems like a good group of people and a company with lots of ground-level support. While trying to fine-tune a custom script for this purpose, I inadvertently discovered that no modifier at all (i.e. no pipe| or >>) automatically performs an append. The trick, though, is to find the right directory. /home/(username)/mail/imapfoldername , plus any additional subfolder names if needed. Don't know if this could be useful information to add to the cpanel Email Filtering notes on cPanel or maybe the help pages? Is this the right forum to suggest that? Am I babbling?

Was wondering if there was some way to configure message sorting through C-panel. The Email Filtering area seemed like an excellent candidate, but the only options I can see for the Action field are Discard, pipe, and forward to email address. Ideally I'd like to take messages from abc@xyz and automatically place them in the "alphabet" folder on my imap account. The RegEx and matching options of Email Filtering seem perfectly suited for this (well, for identifying the email to filter at least), but I can't seem to get the messages into the folders. I've tried entering ">>/mail/alphabet" in the Action field which would work theoretically but I guess the Actions field is carefully filtered for those three above-mentioned options and append isn't one of them. Any creative ideas out there in cyberland? Thanks!

As far as I can tell, TCH implementation of IMAP does not allow folders that contain BOTH messages and subfolders, only folders that contain only messages OR only other folders. If you're using Thunderbird the best way to create a "folder-only" subfolder is to right click on the top-level account icon in the Folders sidebar, go to New Folder..., then create two folders at once using the format "apples/oranges", the forward slash being key. This will create an empty, non-message-bearing folder called apples with a message-bearing subfolder named oranges in it (oranges will not be able to hold additional subfolders). You may now right click on apples to create additional message bearing folders such as oranges, or repeat the process to create a deeper directory tree. In a sense, you have to trick Thunderbird into creating a non-message holding folder by creating using the "firstfolder/underfolder" format. That's the only way it knows that underfolder is for messages and firstfolder will only hold other folders. Hope this helps.