Ethan Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I am wondering what different methods people here are using to filter > your mail? (ie each mailing list to its own mailbox or other such > techniques of dealing with several high volume lists) > > I am going to be switching to mutt soon and the filtering method I > have used on macos with Eudora probably will not work well or at all > with mutt (i set a color 'label' on differing groups of messages say > by list and sort by that in one monolithic in box) > > (yes I did figure out the MTA issues, will post a summary of how to > do that tomorrow)
I use a two-layer approach. My MTA pushes my mail through procmail. My procmail filter is setup to put it in one of three places, a box for Mailing lists mail, a box for mail addressed directly to me, and everything else to another box (mostly spam). I use gnus for email reading and it has it's own filtering capability which I use to sort mail to specific groups using an nnml backend. It sounds compilicated, and I suppose it would be if I had to start from scratch, but this is just the method that's sortf of built up over many years, and it gives very tight control over my email and a lot of flexibility. Gary
