I havent been following all the messages for this nor care to read them all but here is what works for me:
First off i use Kmail and use its mail filter 1) i made a bunch of folders under one called 'Linux lists' such as hardware, install, kde, kernal, network, other, programming, security, server, software, virus, etc. just to name a few and you can also add some under the sub folders if you see fit. 2) then i made a shit load of filter (over 200 i would say, not all at once though they kinda evolve over time) which look something like this for a basic one: <start of filter> Filter Criteria: Match all of the following Subject - contains - firewall Subject - contains - newbie Filter Actions: move to folder - security </start> if you subscribe to the expert list also then you will also want to add a new filter with the same entries except change 'newbie' to 'expert'. i have to add the newbe and expert to everything (or the heading for other lists) because i have friends that may email me questions about computers that would get mixed up in the lists if i didn't add that so they go to my inbox so you get an email such as "[Newbie] firewall don't work...help" then it will be placed in the 'security' folder upon delivery. if you get a lot about security then you could make a sub folder called firewall and have any emails with newbie and firewall in the subject line go to the 'firewall' folder. Hope you get the idea behind this so far. I will add new ones temporaraly such as 'mkisofs' filter since their has been many email lately with that in the subject then when that subject dies just delete it (keep these at the top of the list) Now you may be wondering what is the point in all of this. well my reasoning is sometimes you will have a question about 'installing kde' and you thing you remember seeing someting about that a few months ago on the mailing list you can just click on the 'KDE' folder and scroll down untill you find what you need. The alternitive is to spend 30 min or so looking through the archives on the mandrake webpage. Or another example would be you want learn about viruses and linux since you have the filters set up you can look in the virus folder and see whats in their. But anyway i really like the set up since i subscribe to more than the mandrake lists i get around 500-600 emails a day from the lists all togather and i needed an advanced way to group similar things togather. One major point if you go to set up something like this is order is everything in the world for the filters. each email starts at the top working its way down when it hits a match it stops. so think about placement! Put very specific filters at the top and broad ones at the bottom. my last filter takes anything that is left and has 'fwd' in the subject is placed in a seperate folder called forwards. (Some friends love to fwd garbage to ya) and right before that i have what i like to call a sex filter that bounces anything having to do with the topic back to the sender and then a copy in the trash (since i added this one i don't get much anymore) Hope this helps someone Brian
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