On Thu, 30 Jan 2003 20:20:33 -0600 (CST) Alex <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'm looking for a way to sort incoming mail (mail recvd from > fetchmail) easily. > > Currently, I am using a regular Redhat 8.0 setup and I have written my > own mail sorter that uses mbox format mailboxes. I realize that my > current situtation isn't very good and I would like to use something a > little more mainstream? > > I'm working on my gentoo setup and it is nearly done (after days of > compiling). > > I'm a bit fuzzy on all the aspects of Mail Delivery. It looks like > Procmail is good for sorting and filtering mail, but their site > doesn't give me a very good idea about how to configure it or > sendmail/whatever agent that feeds mail to it.. > > > Should I use sendmail/postfix/qmail? (which). Is Procmail good for > sorting mail from mailing lists into different folders? I don't need > to do anything terribly fancy... > > Could someone give me any advice they have or perhaps a good url for a > Unless you have a need to forward mail for others, I would suggest that you forget about procmail/sendmail et al, and just emerge sylpheed. Sylpheed has filtering capability to store your mail in separate folders by a variety of criteria, and it works just fine. You need GTK+ and a few graphics packages. Do emerge -p sylpheed to see what is required. Enjoy, -- Collins Richey - Denver Area Athlon-XP gentoo 1.4_rc2++ system xfce4-cvs -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
