On Tue, 4 Jun 2024, Chris M via Alpine-info wrote:
I am curious, does Alpine offer filtering rules?
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Are you the one which said to be new with alpine ?
Yes alpine offers filters, although I think the kind of filter you mean
will be more efficiently implemented with procmail (whose syntax has
however a steep learning curve). Also procmail works best as mail delivery
agent, which implies you receive and store messages locally on your
machine (which in turn might require fetchmail in conjunction with an IMAP
server).
Now two things, a specific one and a general one.
a) if what you want is JUST that messages from/to a specific address
is saved to a specific folder WHEN you save it (S command), this
can be achieved very simply associating an Fcc folder to the
address in your address book
issue M to go to alpine main menu
then A to go to the addressbook
and record the address with a nickname and Fcc
You might also need to change simething iun your config .pinerc
Issue M S C to go into the .pinerc, search for keyword
Saved Message Name Rule =
and set (tick) this option
(*) by-fcc-of-from-then-from
b) if you instead want automatic filtering on incoming messages (which
I think occurs at alpine startup, which for that reason might seem
slow ... that's why I prefer procmail which runs in background)
... then you'd need the actual alpine filtering
What follows is a general advice about how you could know almost
everything you wamt about alpine:
issue M to go to alpine main menu
then ? to go to the builtin manual
====> filtering is described in section 17
OR
issue M S R F
(Menu/Setup/Rules/Filters)
to jump directly in the filter config and experiment
Note most keywords and screens in alpine have as builtin help (? or
control-G)
I'd advise each pine newbie to do the following at lest once:
M ? to read the builtin manual
M S C to access your .pinerc then go through the keywords
and press ? to access their specific help
Note down the features which seem to interest you, and experiment.
You will be surprisded of how many thinds you can do with alpine
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Lucio Chiappetti - INAF/IASF - via Corti 12 - I-20133 Milano (Italy)
For more info : http://www.iasf-milano.inaf.it/~lucio/personal.html
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