26-Mar-02 at 19:26, Matthias Weiss ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote : > > Since the mails go to separate accounts anyway, why not fetch the mail to > > two separate folders, and configure mutt to read both? > > What do I gain from this when I have 3 mailing list on one and another 4 lists > on the other account?
1) OK, so fetch the mail to 7 separate folders, a lot of people on the list swear by procmail, which will grab whatever fetchmail brings and filter it to your heart's content. > > > I'd like mutt to check whether a mail came from a mailing > > > list and display only those mail at ones that belong to > > > the same mailing list. I'd then want to switch between > > > the list with some key command. > > > > You can acheive this, although I personally prefer sorting and threading > > to make this less configuration specific. > > Don't understand what you mean. *HOW* can I achieve this? If you do (1), then you just switch folders with 'c'. If you don't (like me, I keep everything remote and unsorted because I haven't automated 100% yet, or perhaps because part of me is still a philistine). So, I use sorting by threads, which Mutt handles rather nicely, and this allows me to see, reasonably easily, which list has which thread, since threads don't usually cross lists. > > > When I end my mutt session I'd want mutt to store the > > > read mails in seperate mail boxes, each for every mailing > > > list I'm subscribed. > > > > You can do this with save hooks, but you'll have to manually save after > > reading. > > you mean I have to save manually every mail??? 8-| Only if you refuse to do (1) or can't. Mutt is not a mail filter, but you can hack it to do basic filtering, but that's not what it's for and it won't do it neatly or correctly. > > > Those remaining mails that don't belong to a mailing list should be > > > moved to a general list. > > > > Move them to a readmail folder, for example, this can be done. > > How? s<cr> =readmail<cr> $ something like that. > I'm getting approx. 130 mails every day, so this *IS* important for me. > Maybe I can do something with my mta (postfix) to splitt the mails up > into several inboxes. Don't know why, but I always thought this is > the job of my mailclient. Send the output of Postfix to procmail, if you're receiving direct. Procmail will do the business. > Well, I actually don't care what part of the mail system is doing the job. I want > to have a solution that helps me handling this amount of everyday mails. Well then get into the tools above. Mutt doesn't do everything.... it isn't supposed to. > I know that being not a member of a list and mailing to it is bad habit, > nevertheless I hope you excuse it, one more mailing list and I drown in > mails, sorry! Sorry, you'll have to search the archive this time anyway. Who said that the path to enlightenment is not easy? -- [Simon White. vim/mutt. [EMAIL PROTECTED] GIMPS:56.54% see www.mersenne.org] Hofstadter's Law states that projects take longer than expected, even when Hofstadter's Law is taken into account. [Arbitrary quotes signature rotation, a simple bash script by Simon White]
