Connecting to IMAP folders in Pine

This is as much for my memory as it is for anyone else, hence the tag and the descriptive subject line. In general, I find that I don't remember how I set things up, and so when it comes time to do it again, I need to look it up/figure it out. So I'll be making these posts as a way to job my memory. You're welcome to use the information and comment, but you need not. I'm not going to filter them, unless people come out of the woodwork and ask me to filter these posts.

Anyway, I found this website for connecting to pine with IMAP+SSL. I've done this for SWARPA, with the novalidate hack, because I don't feel like dealing with the three-quarters of the webpage beyond that. I can live with not certifying SWARPA - I trust the sysadmins.

What should I do with e-mail

So I had this clever plan. I would filter certain types of e-mail with procmail into varying IMAP folders, and then run thunderbird filters to move said e-mail to local folders. This way, if I'm away from my computer for an extended period of time, I can shut down thunderbird and still filter high-traffic, low importance things (like SWIL mailing lists) out of my inbox and pull things like LJ comment notifications into a separate folder. I can still see what's been sent directly too me, but I have access to those things that previously were just filtered directly.

The wrinkle, of course, is that Thunderbird can't run filters on mail not in INBOX.

The easiest solution would just be to go back to filtering solely in Thunderbird. But that doesn't give me the functionality gains I'm looking for.

I could filter things using procmail, then run manually filters on folder. This is a pain, but gives me the functionality I'm looking for.

I could open my local server to the internet, so I can run filters in Thunderbird and still access things which have been filtered. Or, at that point, presumably do it all with procmail. The downside is that I'd have to log in to a second machine to check filtered things via web-mail, but this seems unlikely to be an issue, as the reason these things are being filtered is because they're not mission-critical, and I should be able to use PortableThunderbird, which will connect to these folders, when I'm in front of most Windows machines.

I think I'll go back to just running filters in T-bird, and think about a clean install of Ubuntu server to my server and lock it down and get it running properly as a server that the outside world can see.