From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jul 3 21:59:12 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id VAA29156 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 3 Jul 1996 21:59:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: from andrsn.stanford.edu (andrsn.Stanford.EDU [36.33.0.163]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id VAA29150; Wed, 3 Jul 1996 21:59:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (andrsn@localhost) by andrsn.stanford.edu (8.7.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id VAA05173; Wed, 3 Jul 1996 21:59:07 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 3 Jul 1996 21:59:07 -0700 (PDT) From: Annelise Anderson To: Gary Palmer cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Sorting Incoming Mail In-Reply-To: <11279.836432112@palmer.demon.co.uk> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Wed, 3 Jul 1996, Gary Palmer wrote: > There are 2 solutions. procmail is what I personally use, but if you > use MH or have MH installed, you can also use `slocal'. My procmail > setup at the minute is fairly simple. If there is an `X-Loop:' header, > it goes into an `in-freebsd' file, otherwise it gets dropped in my > mailbox. That way personal mail (or urgent mail) is read first... > > Here is a bit of my older procmailrc which DOES separate out by lists: > > :0:/tmp/.maillock-hackers > * ^Sender.*owner-freebsd-hackers > /home/gpalmer/Mail/in-hackers > :0:/tmp/.maillock-hackers > * ^Sender.*owner-hackers > /home/gpalmer/Mail/in-hackers > :0:/tmp/.maillock-ports > * ^Sender.*owner-freebsd-ports > /home/gpalmer/Mail/in-ports > :0:/tmp/.maillock-ports > * ^Sender.*owner-ports > /home/gpalmer/Mail/in-ports > > Note that I was never very sure which `owner' each list had, so I went > with both just to be sure (I think at one point some lists had > `owner-freebsd-foo' and others had `owner-foo', and I could never be > bothered figuring out which was which :-) ) > > As I use the emacs MH interface, all I need to do then is hit CTRL-U i > and select which maildrop I want to `inc' from. > > Whoops, nearly forgot: elm has a `filter' program too, but I would be > careful of that one, it coredumps on mails with long Subject: lines. > > Gary I got procmail working with pine 3.94--thanks to this fine help including the "cheat sheet." It's terrific! Couldn't have done that on the VAX where my mail usually goes. Annelise