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Date:      Wed, 3 Jul 1996 18:29:10 -0500 (EST)
From:      John Fieber <jfieber@indiana.edu>
To:        Annelise Anderson <andrsn@andrsn.stanford.edu>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Sorting Incoming Mail
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.94.960703182618.8040I-100000@Fieber-John.campusview.indiana.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSI.3.94.960703141941.4397A-100000@andrsn.stanford.edu>

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On Wed, 3 Jul 1996, Annelise Anderson wrote:

> mail.  Is there a better way to do this--e.g., using /etc/aliases
> and procmail (procmail seems rather complicated to set up)?

In my opinion, the procmail rules file is unnecessairly
obtuse---it was probably designed for parsing efficiency, not
human usability---but it is worth the effort of figuring it out.
I get about 1400 message a week.  Life without procmail would be
utter hell. 

-john

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