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Date:      Wed, 20 Sep 2000 12:01:19 +0000
From:      Chris Esser <kingsqueak@kingsqueak.org>
To:        martian@t-online.de
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Mail sorting
Message-ID:  <200009201601.e8KG1Jp54503@pinnacle.kingsqueak.org>
In-Reply-To: <13bJu1-1JtH1cC@fwd01.sul.t-online.com>

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I think Pine has its own mail filtering built in now, there's always
the Netscape filters in its mail app and...my personal favorite plan.

Install an MTA (sendmail,postfix,exim,qmail etc.)
Install procmail <THE filter for mail>
Configure the MTA to use procmail as the MDA, meaning all mail gets
passed to procmail for delivery.

Then read the manpage/docs for procmail and setup a ~/.procmailrc and
filter your lists accordingly.

If you go that route you can POP your mail with fetchmail called from
a crontab etc.



-------------------
> 
> Hello everybody!
> 
> I'm a real newbie with FreeBSD/Unix and so I've subscribed to
several
> freebsd mailing lists. As you can imagine this is a lot of mail. And
now
> the question:
> 
> Is there a possibility to locally/automatically sort the mail into
> different mailboxes for one user? I have to get my mail from a POP3
server.
> At the moment I do this with spruce but it would be nice if this
also could
> be done automatically.
> 
> Can anyone tell me what software and documentation I need for this
task?
> 
> Thank you!
> Martin.
> 
> 
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