On 20-Nov-1999, brd wrote:
> Hi all. I've just switched to mutt a few days ago, after using elm
> for the past 6 or 7 years. So far, it's easy to pick up, and I'm
> liking it. One question I do have, though, is what should the lists
> command actually do?
Have you looked at the manual?
http://www.mutt.org/doc/manual/manual-3.html#lists
> In my muttrc I have the line:
> lists mutt (I also tried mutt-users)
> but messages to this list are still coming to my inbox.
Been there. Maybe it is a good idea to mention in the above section of
the manual that Mutt does NOT do incoming-mail-filtering.
> I have a
> couple of other lists that I am filtering out to separate folders
> using procmail, and that is working okay, and I could continue to
> set this up for all my lists, I was just curious to see what mutt
> would do with lists. Should it put them in their own folder
> =mutt-users, which is how I have procmail doing other lists?
I presume you use the POP feature for download? Don't.
Use fetchmail or the like and let procmail do the filtering for you.
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Ronny Haryanto
