On Wed, Nov 29, 2000 at 12:51:17AM -0500, Brenda J. Butler wrote: > I use mutt for my mail client, and exim for my mail transfer agent (MTA). > I use fetchmail to download my email from my isp to my machine and > I look at it locally. I use procmail to pre-sort the email into > folders (one just for debian-user) and when I have a question > I bring up the debian-user folder and run searches in it.
Oh yes I forgot: debian-user grows very quickly (and I don't delete any mail), so once a month I move the folder to a new name like "debian-user-yyyymm" and start a new one "debian-user". For slower-growing folders (like debian-sparc) I do that once a year. "debian-sparc-yyyy" Since I have a slow modem, I don't mind downloading all that mail and archiving it locally, so I can do quicker searches when I need info. For other people, perhaps you should just run searches against the mail archives on the web. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Hi! I'm a .signature virus! Copy me into your ~/.signature, please! --