On Sun, Aug 08, 1999 at 07:18:25PM -0700, Eric G . Miller wrote:
>       I stand corrected.  I was actually thinking of the mbox-hook,
> but that only processes messages /after/ they have been read.  Seems
> procmail would be the ticket for filtering large volumes of mail. 

procmail also offers the following advantage:  since it processes each
message as it comes in, everything's ready when I sit down and type
"mutt" (or pine, or whatever).  In contrast, it's not much fun to
watch my mailreader choke on a couple thousand messages if I've been
away for a few days.

                                        -Michael

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