I'd like a presentation of procmail with a chance to ask some questions. I subscribe to about 11 different lists at present and use mail filtering on my client.
A friend sent me some sample scripts to set up some filters on procmail but they didn't make much sense to me.... I'm afraid I still don't now what's a variable and whats a command/subroutine/function most of the time in scripts... thou it's all starting to make more sense the more I play round with it. As for mail management - using a list still doesn't compare to using a news group reader IM>HO. I like the 'plonk' feature of news readers. Personally I have no issue if some of you just plonked me - yes I generate more traffic than some right now. I would suggest anyone that wants to slow traffic to more technical issues should just filter out any threed started by me. Cheers Don On Wed, 2004-05-26 at 13:07, Zane Gilmore wrote: > However a quick summary of the concepts to show people just how > unbelievable useful they are. > > I would also quite like a rundown on procmail too :-) > > > > Nick Rout wrote: > > I think it is a little difficult to cover this with the multitude of > > email clients about. they all filter differently. > > > > many people are even reading them in *gasp* winders machines. > > > > me, i am an advocate of keeping my mail on an imap machine and filtering > > it once via procmail. The client's filtering system doesn't get a look > > in. then i can access off any client on any machine, or over the web > > using squirrel, and the mail is all sorted the same way. However even > > the setup for procmail is subtly different depending on the imap server > > software. > > > <snip>
