On Sun, Jun 15, 2008 at 10:42:25PM -0500, Kyle Wheeler wrote: > On Sunday, June 15 at 08:32 PM, quoth Don Raikes: > > I am a newbie to mutt, having just set it up last week. > > Welcome! > > > I receive a ton of email and I want to knwo the best way to filter > > the email into folders. > > The "best" way depends on your situation. For example, if you're > leaving your email on a remote server, the IMAPFilter program may be > more appropriate for your needs.
No I pull my messages down to my local system using pop. I have a .fetchmailrc file setup, and can use it if it is the most efficient method. I also have the pop_host setup in my .muttrc file so I can use the <ctrl+g> to retrieve my email. > > Procmail is... well, the best that can be said about it is that it is > a tool best used by people who really know what they're doing (or who > are pretty stubborn---which is why I use it). It has some pretty > glaring flaws (doesn't handle delivery failure very well), and you're > probably better off learning to use something like maildrop. Depending > on who you ask, maildrop has a simpler and/or more obvious syntax. I will take a look at maildrop to see how it works. > > > I have looked at some examples of procmail recipes, but can't figure > > out how to tie mutt and procmail together. > > Procmail and maildrop are MDAs - mail DELIVERY agents. That is, they > receive mail and deliver it to mailboxes. Then you use mutt to read > those mailboxes. Procmail and maildrop are NOT for taking a large > folder of email and sorting it into sub-folders (though there are ways > of using them to do that, it's generally not the most obvious or most > efficient way to use them); instead they are designed for being part > of the mail delivery process (i.e. they should be triggered by your > mail server or by your fetchmail/gotmail program). As I said earlier, while I can setup getchmail to run in a cron job, I was trying to use the <shift+g> keystroke to retrieve mail not fetchmail. I am certainly open to usign the fetchmail methodology though. > > Does that help, or am I just confusing you? Kyle, It actually helps a lot. I will look into maildrop and see how that works. Thansk for the quick reply. > > ~Kyle > -- > This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for > complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; > the philosophy is kindness. > -- Dalai Lama >
