Re: Filtered mail was RE: Why reply to list and Cc author?

[Steve Youngs]

Cristian POP <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

>       I want to filter my incoming mail and I don't know
>       what to do :
>       
>       - I use pine as MUA
>       - and cyrus imap server 
>       
>       I want to define some rules that mail comming from various lists
>       or persons go directly to some folders in my imap hierarchy

1 - use pine for reading and writing only, no fetching.  And point
        pine's INBOX to the default setting.
2 - use fetchmail to retrieve your mail
3 - use procmail to filter and sort it

Grab fetchmail from freshmeat, or if you already have it, man
fetchmail.
man procmail
man procmailex


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