On Thu, Jan 27, 2000 at 04:52:04PM +0000, Ethan Benson wrote: > 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)
I use mutt to read mail as well - I'm still amazed at just how configurable it is. For my MTA I use exim - it was pretty easy to get setup. The only thing that was a bit difficult was getting the message headers rewritten correctly. Also, exim has filtering capability built into it. I looked at using procmail, but exim's filtering seemed easier to setup. I'm on a bunch of different lists - something like two dozen. As a result I average 200 to 250 emails per day. I've got each list going into its own box - this makes it easier to keep track of the different threads going on in the different lists. I find this works pretty well - I still get a bit confused at times but nowhere *near* as confused as when it was all going into one massive inbox. -- Mike Werner KA8YSD | "Where do you want to go today?" ICQ# 12934898 | "As far from Redmond as possible!" '91 GS500E | Morgantown WV | Only dead fish go with the flow.
