I personally use fetchmail, procmail and mutt. Fetchmail you use it, you have an idea.
Procmail: The best for sorting your mail and more... It is a bit involved to setup, but it worth the effort. I filter all my mails with it and it can do spam deleting, editing mails in the fly, etc. Very good start for procmail is the infinite ink tutorial: http://www.ii.com/internet/robots/procmail/qs/ This talk about you mailbox design as well. As for the mua: There are excellent graphical clients, I have been using them for years until I found mutt. It was a challenge to set up, but now I would not give it up for any other clients. It can do practically EVERYTHING. (Except inline showing of pictures). Beware, mutt's strenght is in the config file. Without customization (you can find lots of examples) of your muttrc you will never realize why people love mutt... There are excellent mutt tutorials on the web look at www.mutt.org. Just another thing: with fectmail/procmail/mutt you are not bound to a running graphical interface (although I find it more pleasant to run mutt in konsole:-)) When X refuse to start and you need to send an email for asking help or just read that old tip in your mailbox, it is nice to have your full blown mail system working on a console... On Thu, Jan 30, 2003 at 08:20:33PM -0600, Alex 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 > HOWTO? > > Thanks > > -Alex > > > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > -- _______________________________________ Viktor Lakics email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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