managing your email using sieve

This webpage is your friend; refer to it early, and refer to it often. The CS incoming mail server is imap.srv.cs.cmu.edu, or its more well-behaved sibling, imap-ns.srv.cs.cmu.edu. The former is a standard IMAP server; the latter puts your mail through a spam filter before delivering into your inbox (with some latency added on).

To use imap-ns: You can use jeeves to redirect email to imap-ns. First make sure you have valid kerberos tokens, then telnet to jeeves.srv.cs.cmu.edu (use "Nifty telnet" on the Windows machines) and follow on-screen directions to redirect your email to imap-ns.srv.cs.cmu.edu.

Create your .mail instance password, if you have not done so already. You can do this through jeeves; detailed instructions can be found here

Create some additional mail folders on the imap server; at the very least, create an INBOX.SPAM folder. One painless way of doing this is by logging in to the CS webmail server using your CS username and .mail password, and clicking on the "Folders" link at the top.

Create a sieve script to process your mail on the imap server; you can sort your mail into folders, forward to other email addresses etc., by matching on various fields in the header. Here is a simple sieve script that puts spam and virus mails identified by the imap-ns spam filter into INBOX.SPAM, and puts mails from a mailing list that I no longer care about into INBOX.IGNORE. You can find more sieve documentation here

Upload your newly created sieve script (say, sieve.txt), as follows (you will have to do this from a Unix/Linux machine; I know of no way to do this from Windows):
```
$ sieveshell imap.srv.cs.cmu.edu
```
(do this even if you are using imap-ns)
```
> put sieve.txt 
> activate sieve.txt
> quit
```
Email notifications using zephyr: the imap server sends out notifications for each incoming mail on class "MAIL", instance "<mailbox name>". See comments for zephyr-extra-subscriptions in the zephyr-setup.el file to see how to receive these notifications.