I've controlled my own mail server for the past 5 years, and use procmail server side to filter e-mail. If you don't control your mail server, you may still have procmail available to you if you have a *nix login. Run 'man procmailrc' or google for sample recipe files.
For client side filtering, thunderbird works across Linux and Windows, and filters reasonably well. On 9/26/05, Cristobal Palmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I keep getting messages that are labeled "OT:" in the subject line, > but I don't want to read them. How do I get rid of them without having > to hit the delete key every time? > > I tried setting up a rule in Pine, which took about 30 seconds, but > then I decided I don't like Pine because it isn't really Open Source. > The same was true for my gmail webmail account. It took me almost a > full two minutes to do the same in mutt on my laptop (I hadn't done it > before), but since I really don't use mutt that often I figure I > needed to set it up elsewhere. I even managed it on my... ::grits > teeth:: ... MS Outlook at work, but I _really_ don't like outlook. > > So I guess my question is actually: "Which of the many ways of easily > filtering out subject lines with 'OT:' in them is best?" > > Has anybody had a particularly good experience setting up filters for > personal email? > > -CMP > > -- > > Cristobal M. Palmer > UNC-CH SILS Student > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ils.unc.edu/~cmpalmer > "Television-free since 2003" > -- > TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug > TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ > TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ > -- Joseph Tate Personal e-mail: jtate AT dragonstrider DOT com Web: http://www.dragonstrider.com -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/
