From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Oct 5 21:50:31 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AF15837B401 for ; Sat, 5 Oct 2002 21:50:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: from post-21.mail.nl.demon.net (post-21.mail.nl.demon.net [194.159.73.20]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0F83943E42 for ; Sat, 5 Oct 2002 21:50:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cls@raggedclown.net) Received: from [212.238.197.102] (helo=mailhost.raggedclown.net) by post-21.mail.nl.demon.net with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1) id 17y3N5-000PM0-00 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sun, 06 Oct 2002 04:50:27 +0000 Received: from willow.raggedclown.net (willow.raggedclown.intra [192.168.1.10]) by mailhost.raggedclown.net (Ragged Clown Mail Gateway [oz]) with ESMTP id 059494881D for ; Sun, 6 Oct 2002 06:50:26 +0200 (CEST) Received: by willow.raggedclown.net (Ragged Clown Host [willow], from userid 1009) id 305F4225CF; Sun, 6 Oct 2002 06:50:27 +0200 (CEST) Date: Sun, 6 Oct 2002 06:50:27 +0200 From: Cliff Sarginson To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Mutt and Filters Message-ID: <20021006045027.GA622@raggedclown.net> References: <20021006005808.GA96462@insightbb.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20021006005808.GA96462@insightbb.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.27i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, Oct 05, 2002 at 07:58:08PM -0500, Bryan Cassidy wrote: > OK. I am going to try this one last time. I really want to keep using > Mutt because it's small, fast and I like console based apps anyways. I > am new at this stuff ok. I have asked a couple places on the net many > times in the last 2 weeks and still can't get it to work. I am > starting over. I want Mutt to Filter out my e-mails into groups. Like > for this mailing list I want "ALL" e-mails sent, and replied to on > this list to be sent to a sertain group I dont know maybe called > FreeBSD-Questions.... You need to use procmail for the filtering and the FCC option of Mutt to get a saved copy of your reply, although I am not sure how you use FCC to get a saved copy of your reply to a different mailbox (i.e. the on you are looking at at the time). Keeping all your mailboxes in a seperate directory .. say called Mail ... You may need to export the environment variables MAIL and MAILDIR to get you into the right place from wherever you run mutt. Then using the "c" command you can get a list of the mailboxes and select the one you want to look at. You set the mailboxes as "subscribed" then they will appear as in a list and you get cute little lines and arrows showing all messages in a thread according to subject. Sorry not to explain further, but you really *must* study the "mutt" documentation and learn a bit about basic use of procmail .. there are millions of what procmail refers to as recipes on the net...and there is a tutorial for it. Procmail is as big a mess as sendmail is, but for this kind of fairly simple filtering it does the job. Also you can put a rule in it to use something like spamassassin which will help you filter out spam according to a set of rules. It's in the ports. I don't know how you point sendmail into using procmail since I use a sane MTA called postfix. Basically mutt does not have inbuilt filtering, so you have to use an external agent like procmail. I think there are others (maildrop ??) but I know little about them. -- Regards Cliff Sarginson The Netherlands Email: cls@raggedclown.net Tel : +31 (0)10 4764595 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message