Date: Fri, 5 Jul 1996 15:04:20 -0500 (EST) From: John Fieber <jfieber@indiana.edu> To: Charlie ROOT <root@andrsn.stanford.edu> Cc: Zach Heilig <zach@blizzard.gaffaneys.com>, Annelise Anderson <andrsn@andrsn.stanford.edu>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Sorting Incoming Mail Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.94.960705145644.8040J-100000@Fieber-John.campusview.indiana.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSI.3.94.960704001405.5468A-100000@andrsn.stanford.edu>
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On Thu, 4 Jul 1996, Charlie ROOT wrote:
> What I don't quite get is subscribing to different groups under
> different names--e.g., instead of subscribing to doc as andrsn@
> andrsn.stanford.edu, I'd subscribe as fdocs@andrsn.stanford.edu,
> create a user (without a valid shell or some such, so even if the
> user had a password it would never need to be used) named fdocs,
> and then use procmail to sort all mail to fdocs into the
> appropriate folder/file in /usr/home/andrsn. Is that how people
> do it?
I suppose you could do it that way, but its unnecessary
complexity. Look carefully through the headers on messages from
mailing lists. Usually there will be something you can sort on.
In messages from the FreeBSD mailing lists, the Sender: field is
a giveaway:
Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org
in the header. Then in my ~/.procmailrc (among other things):
# Messages from any of the freebsd mailing lists...
:0
* ^Sender:.*owner.*@freebsd.org
{
# The doc list gets filed in doc...
:0
* ^Sender:.*doc
doc
# The cvs list gets filed in cvs...
:0
* ^Sender:.*CVS-committers
cvs
# Separate out questions so I can ignore them...
:0
* ^Sender:.*questions
questions
# ...and everything else in bsd.
:0
bsd
}
With pine you can set up a collection of "incoming" folders that
you can quickly scan through using the <tab> key.
-john
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