Here's my setup: Software -------- nmh - A set of electronic mail handling programs. mutt - Text-based mailreader supporting MIME, GPG, PGP and threading. fetchmail-ssl - POP2/3, APOP, IMAP mail gatherer/forwarder (with ssl support) sendmail - A powerful mail transport agent. procmail - Versatile e-mail processor.
I like nmh for it's strength on the command line, it's WONDERFUL
regexp matching, and for it's organization of email messages as
separate files organized under directories. Mutt is a very nice
ncurses CUI to interface with the mailboxes when I'm too lazy to do it
from the shell and when I want to see articles in a threaded
presentation. Fetchmail-ssl is essential for grabbing my email from
the number of different SSL enabled IMAP/POP servers. Procmail, of
course, is great for writing filtering recipes for my email so that
everything gets put into place.
To make this all work together, I've written a small shell script to
create new list directories at the beginning of the month (inspired by
the procmailex(5) man page).
#-------------------- SCRIPT BEGINS ----------------------------------
#!/bin/bash
# Folder manager for the ~/Mail folder
# by Chad Walstrom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
# Move to the Mail directory
builtin cd ~/Mail
# make sure we have a list
[ 0 -eq ${#1} ] && exit 0
# Assign the lists
LIST=${1}
YEARMONTH=`date +%Y%m`
if [ ! -d ${LIST}.${YEARMONTH} ] ; then
mkdir ${LIST}.${YEARMONTH}
fi
if [ -a ${LIST} ] && [ -L ${LIST} ] ; then
rm ${LIST}
elif [ -a ${LIST} ] ; then
mv ${LIST} ${LIST}.bak
fi
ln -s ${LIST}.${YEARMONTH} ${LIST}
touch ${LIST}/.mh_sequences
#-------------------- SCRIPT ENDS ------------------------------------
The recipe I use to launch this is:
#-------------------- RECIPE BEGINS ----------------------------------
MONTH=`date +%Y%m`
:0:
* [EMAIL PROTECTED]
{
:0 Wic
* test -d list-foo.${MONTH}
| listln list-foo
:0:
list-foo/.
}
#-------------------- RECIPE ENDS ------------------------------------
Additional Tools
----------------
abook - A text-based ncurses address book application.
lbdb - The little brother's database for the mutt mail reader
muttzilla - Launch email or news clients from Netscape.
procmail-lib - A library of useful procmail recipes.
junkfilter - A junk-email filtering program for procmail
spamfilter - Filter spam from incoming mail
dotfile-procmail - Dotfile Generator, module for procmail
Documentation
-------------
mh-book - MH & nmh: Email for Users & Programmers online book
sendmail-doc - A powerful mail transport agent.
--
Chad "^chewie, gunnarr" Walstrom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
http://www.wookimus.net/
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