Re: easy question... :)
On Tue, 11 Sep 2001, Matthias LOITSCH wrote: how can i filter my messages so that, for example, all mails from [EMAIL PROTECTED] get into a specific mailbox when they arrive? I'd recommend maildrop... http://www.flounder.net/~mrsam/maildrop/ http://www.courier-mta.org/download.php#maildrop -- Don't tell me I'm burning the candle at both ends -- tell me where to get more wax!! - David Clarke [EMAIL PROTECTED] | David Clarke s3353950 GPG Fingerprint : 869B 53DD 5E80 E1F0 93F6 9871 0508 0296 5957 F723 PGP signature
Re: easy question... :)
On (11/09/01 17:31), Matthias LOITSCH wrote: it's just an easy thing i'd like to know : how can i filter my messages so that, for example, all mails from [EMAIL PROTECTED] get into a specific mailbox when they arrive? Procmail. http://support.ossifrage.net/plaintext/procmail.txt - from memory. -- Homepage: http://ailbhe.ossifrage.net/
Re: easy question... :)
not bad, but a better site for getting started with procmail is: http://www.ii.com/internet/robots/procmail/qs/ thanks to whoever posted this link on this list a while back. It's absolutely invaluable! * Ailbhe Leamy ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On (11/09/01 17:31), Matthias LOITSCH wrote: it's just an easy thing i'd like to know : how can i filter my messages so that, for example, all mails from [EMAIL PROTECTED] get into a specific mailbox when they arrive? Procmail. http://support.ossifrage.net/plaintext/procmail.txt - from memory. -- Homepage: http://ailbhe.ossifrage.net/ -- Carl B. Constantine University of Victoria Programmer Analyst http://www.uvic.ca UNIX System Administrator Victoria, BC, Canada [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: easy question... :)
On Tue, Sep 11, 2001 at 05:31:58PM +0200 or thereabouts, Matthias LOITSCH wrote: it's just an easy thing i'd like to know : how can i filter my messages so that, for example, all mails from [EMAIL PROTECTED] get into a specific mailbox when they arrive? you need procmail for that. in my ~/.procmailrc i have something like this: :0: * ^Return-path:.*mutt-user.*@mutt\.org $MAILDIR/mutt/ so what this does is place all mails that comes from this list to ~/Mail/mutt. and the same syntax goes for the other mailing list i subscribe to. now in you ~/.muttrc you tell mutt what your mailboxes are by using the mailboxes keyword like mailboxes ! ~/Mail/mutt and so on. that way when you press the key c it will move to those directories where there is new mail. hth. -- In is out and out is in. But out is out and in is in. -- Pumbaa PGP signature
Re: easy question... :)
* Rino Mardo [EMAIL PROTECTED] [09-Tue-01 19:06 -0700]: On Tue, Sep 11, 2001 at 05:31:58PM +0200 or thereabouts, Matthias LOITSCH wrote: it's just an easy thing i'd like to know : how can i filter my messages so that, for example, all mails from [EMAIL PROTECTED] get into a specific mailbox when they arrive? you need procmail for that. in my ~/.procmailrc i have something like this: :0: * ^Return-path:.*mutt-user.*@mutt\.org $MAILDIR/mutt/ actually, does it not make more sense to use ^TO_ expression, in plcae of ^Return-path? why did you choose that? (i am not saying ^TO_ is correct, as i only recently started getting into procmail, but from what i read about ^TO_ it looks at lots of To:-like headers. Return-path may or may not be set by the mailing list management software, or may actually even be mucked with by MTAs, i think...at least i saw some message to this effect on some mailing list. given, it is not a correct configuration, but still a possible one) denis -- // mailto: Denis Perelyubskiy [EMAIL PROTECTED] // icq : 12359698 // PGP : http://www.cs.ucla.edu/~denisp/files/pgp.asc
Re: easy question... :)
Denis Perelyubskiy wrote on Tue, Sep 11, 2001 at 07:13:04PM -0700: * Rino Mardo [EMAIL PROTECTED] [09-Tue-01 19:06 -0700]: :0: * ^Return-path:.*mutt-user.*@mutt\.org $MAILDIR/mutt/ actually, does it not make more sense to use ^TO_ expression, in plcae of ^Return-path? There are a couple of good reasons not to use ^TO or ^TO_ when sorting out mailing lists. The first is speed, ^TO variants are big regexps that take a while to evaluate, especially when you pile up lots of them in a row (man procmailrc for the actual regexs). Secondly ^TOs miss a bunch of mails, I regularly got mails from mutt development, bugtraq, and a few other lists falling through ^TO based filters. It wasn't a matter of bad address regexs, these emails used bcc only addressing and no (X-)?Apparently-To:, it seems mutt lists set Delivered-To: which isn't part of the ^TO_ regex. The fastest way to sort out mailing lists is to pick off a custom header used by the list (with a ^ rooted regex) and then order the rules by posting frequency. For example from my .procmailrc: ## mutt user discussion list :0: * ^Delivered-To: mutt-users dev/muttu RJS -- Robert J. Seymour, Jr.[EMAIL PROTECTED] Seymour Consultingwww.rjsjr.com Phone: +1 (415) 536-1422 icq: 82889262 GPG key: http://www.rjsjr.com/pubkey.html or finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fingerprint: 0948 B2C7 B51D 20FF 990A B552 3BB9 041A 280F 303A
