On Sat, Jun 05, 1999 at 07:32:55PM -0500, phuzz phactor wrote:
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> I'm basically just trying to get a set of filters to sort my mail into
> different folders based on things like who it's from, subject, or who
> it's addressed to.
>
> could anyone give me some direction on this? any help would be greatly
> appreciated.
The following is the way I do it (would be great to hear how others deal
with the problem of 1. Sorting mail and 2. Reading/Sending news in Mutt):
I use fetchmail for fetching my mail, then procmail for sorting it into
different folders. To feed the mail through procmail my ~/.forward file
contains just this single line:
"|exec /usr/local/bin/procmail"
A simple ~/.procmailrc file could then look like this:
# ~/.procmailrc
# =============
PATH=/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin
MAILDIR=$HOME/Mail #you'd better make sure it exists
LOGFILE=$MAILDIR/from #recommended
MUTT (begin)
#--------------
:0:
* ^Sender:.*owner-mutt-users
mutt-users
# MUTT (end)
# End of ~/.procmailrc
I also use Newsfetch for storing news into regular mailbox format. That
way I can read my news in Mutt :-) But sending/replying to news is not
as straightforward as sending/replying to ordinary mail.
Currently I do this when I want to post to a newsgroup:
1. Hit 'm' in Mutt to bring up the editor of choice (vim in my case).
2. Delete unwanted header fields (like To:, Cc:, etc.)
3. Put in Newsgroups: newsgroup.name
4. Write the body.
5. Pipe the message to rpost (external program for posting news).
In Vim I just type
:w ! rpost
6. Quit the editor and abort the message
Note: I could of course set up some folder-hooks so I could put in the
'Newsgroups: ...' field automatically. Then, as I have not found a way
to get rid of the To:, Cc: and Bcc: fields in the configuration file
(~/.muttrc), I could make a macro for doing this. I will probably do
that when I get tired of doing it manually :-)
The details for replying to newspostings involves slightly more work,
since one has to cut the "reference" information from the In-Reply-To:
field to the References: field. But one could write a macro for this
too).
For watching the mailboxes (including news) I use Xbuffy. It
makes it very easy to see exactly which mailbox receives mail.
Hope some of my experiences will help.
Pal Sommerhein
