Here is a procmail recipe that I use to (successfully) filter several debian lists. This goes in your ~/.procmailrc
You also need to set up a .forward file in the form below. Look at 'man procmailex' for more examples. You will need to tell your mail user agent about the locations of these new mailboxes, and you will need to arrange for your 'backup' folder to be emptied from time to time (put a line in your crontab to run savelog on the file -- man savelog). Carl Mummert --cut .forward-- |/usr/bin/procmail #your-name --end .forward-- --cut .procmailrc-- #procmailrc MAILDIR=$HOME/mail LOGFILE=$HOME/.pm-log LOGABSTRACT=all VERBOSE=yes PATH=/usr/lib/nmh:/usr/bin/mh:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin:/bin #Everything else goes into backup :0 c: /home/tinuviel/Majors/mummert/mail/backup :0H: * .*debian-user.* in.deb.user :0H: * .*debian-devel-changes { :0B * Arch.*i386 in.deb.i386 :0B * Arch.*all in.deb.i386 :0 /dev/null } :0H: * .*debian-devel.* in.deb.devel :0H: * .*debian-announce.* in.deb.user #everything else :0: in.box