On Sat, Jan 09, 1999 at 12:22:24PM +0100, J.H.M. Dassen wrote: > On Sun, Jan 10, 1999 at 08:55:31 +1100, Stephen M Lavelle wrote: > > i'm using Elm-me+ to read mail and fetchmail to fetch from my ISP. I would > > like to know how to set up separate mailboxes (i.e 1 for messages from > > this list, 1 for another list, 1 for work etc). The docs dont really > > mention this. > > This is a task for a mail delivery agent (like procmail or mailagent), not > for a mail user agent like elm-me+, or for fetchmail (which bridges between > your ISP's mail transfer agent and yours). > > I recommend you install procmail and read its docs.
sortmail may be worth considering too. It's simple, but that's both a shortcoming and an advantage. I've run it here for several years. It's quite old. I now use an exim filter; it's more powerful than sortmail, and faster to execute since it's built in. I have a procmail filter at one other account (since it's the only .forward pipe allowed), but would prefer to run sortmail. Here's my old .sortmailrc for Debian. # .rc file for sortmail, which files mail in the right places # mail goes in to the incoming if unrecognised, # or to the debian folder if appropriate set mailbox='/var/spool/mail/hamish' set folder='Mail' /hamish/t:m /debian-announce/h:m /debian-devel-announce/h:m /debian-private/h:+debian-private /debian-changes/h:+debian-changes /debian-devel-changes/h:+debian-devel-changes /debian-devel/h:+debian-devel /debian-user/h:+debian /debian-policy/h:+debian-policy /debian-mentors/h:+debian-mentors /debian-qa/h:+debian-qa /debian-68k/h:+debian-68k You can do a lot better with exim or procmail, but it's pretty simple to set up. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3TYD [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Debian packages at ftp://ftp.rising.com.au/pub/hamish. PGP#EFA6B9D5 CCs of replies from mailing lists are welcome. http://hamish.home.ml.org
