On Fri 25 May 2007 15:27:10 NZST +1200, John Carter wrote: > Umm, a digest is the wrong tool for digesting large chunks of mail....
Absolutely. Nothing but annoyance. Use IMAP if you only want to download those emails of interest to you. > My ~/.fetchmailrc > It keeps a copy of everything, just in case life screws up (hasn't > happen yet in years of use) Excellent scheme, and you give the reason which was always given by procmail users. However there are 2 more good reasons for doing this: *) The use of grep allows to determine quickly and reliably(!) whether an email that was claimed to have been sent ever arrived. Quite a few times I suspect those claims to have been false and the blame to be passed over to the Internet black hole. *) You are (to varying degrees) desperate to recover an email which you received but no longer have for any of these reasons: You accidentally deleted it. You deliberately deleted it but it later turned out to be important. Your spam filter was overly zealous. Instead of groveling to the sender, simply pull it out of the backup stash. grepmail is really good for this. I haven't had a procmail accident in many years either (if ever), whereas I have the other uses almost every month. suggestions inlined: > LOGFILE=$HOME/log/procmail #recommended > MAILDIR=$HOME/mail > DEFAULT=$MAILDIR/inbox LINEBUF=16384 MONTH=`date "+%Y%m"` > axe that: > :0 c > before-spamprobe :0 c: before-spamprobe-$MONTH > > :0 > SCORE=| /usr/bin/spamprobe train > :0 wf > | formail -I "X-SpamProbe: $SCORE" > :0 a: > *^X-SpamProbe: SPAM > SpamIAm > > :0: You usually want ^TO_ instead of ^TO > * ^TO(linux-users@(it\.)?canterbury\.ac\.nz|[EMAIL PROTECTED]) > IN-cantlug > > :0: > * [EMAIL PROTECTED] > IN-gnuz -- Volker Kuhlmann is list0570 with the domain in header http://volker.dnsalias.net/ Please do not CC list postings to me.
